# Fish (Still Life), in Still Life

Édouard Manet painted this in 1864, aged 32. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> This painting, like many of Manet’s still lifes, recalls 17th-century Dutch models. The directness of execution, bold brushwork, and immediacy of vision, however, suggest why the public found Manet’s work so unorthodox and confrontational.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: 1864
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 73.5 × 92.4 cm (28 15/16 × 36 3/8 in.); Framed: 108.6 × 127 × 12.7 cm (42 3/4 × 50 × 5 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.311
- 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

- [More by Édouard Manet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/edouard-manet?hang=749) (16 works)
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