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

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

Our note:

> “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”.

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## The work

- Date: 1875
- Medium: Transfer lithograph in black on gray China paper
- Dimensions: 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.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.52.5
- 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.

## Walk on

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