# At the window ("Open here I flung the shutter..."), from The Raven (Le Corbeau)

**Édouard Manet** (French, 1832–1883)  
1875  
Transfer lithograph in black on gray China paper  
Image: 38.7 × 31.5 cm (15 1/4 × 12 7/16 in.); Sheet: 55.1 × 39 cm (21 3/4 × 15 3/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.52.5. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111366).

## About this work

“Open here I flung the shutter”: in Poe’s poem the sleepless narrator throws open his window, and in steps the raven, which will perch above his door and answer every question with “Nevermore”. Manet’s illustration, for Stéphane Mallarmé’s French translation published in 1875, is drawn with a loaded brush in bold, broken strokes of black. The transfer lithograph process allowed him to work on paper and have the drawing printed directly, keeping the immediacy of his hand.

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Édouard Manet made this in 1875, aged 43. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of transfer lithograph in black on gray china paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Lithograph.** Drawn on limestone with a greasy crayon or ink. The stone is kept damp, and the oily printing ink clings only to the drawing. Invented in the 1790s, it let artists print exactly as they drew.

### [Édouard Manet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edouard-manet)

French, 1832–1883; born in Paris; died in Paris

Manet came from a prosperous Parisian family, trained under Thomas Couture and studied the old masters, Velázquez above all. In the 1860s he provoked critics with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia, modern subjects painted in flat, frank colour with little modelling. Though he never showed with the Impressionists, younger painters looked to him as a leader, and in his last years he painted Parisian café life and A Bar at the Folies-Bergère.

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## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: France
- The artist was 43
- Real size: about 15 × 12 in (38 × 31 cm). The 11 × 14 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164; 20 × 30 in $208; 24 × 36 in $258
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118; 20 × 30 in $148
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5; 24 × 36 in $5

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