# Woman Reading, in Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet painted this in 1880–82, aged about 48. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> Édouard Manet was a pivotal figure in the development of Impressionism and modern art. Here, an elegantly dressed Parisian woman reads a magazine, a beer close at hand—a scene that would have struck contemporary viewers as fashionable and modern.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: 1880–82
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 61.2 × 50.7 cm (24 1/16 × 19 7/8 in.); Framed: 83.2 × 73.1 × 9.9 cm (32 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.435
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Édouard Manet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edouard-manet), French, 1832–1883

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.

16 works in the collection.

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