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image of The Railway
Edouard Manet
French, 1832 - 1883
The Railway, 1873
oil on canvas
Overall: 93.3 x 111.5 cm (36 3/4 x 43 7/8 in.) framed: 113 x 132.7 x 5.4 cm (44 1/2 x 52 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.)
Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer
1956.10.1
From the Tour: Impressionism
Object 1 of 7

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From the artist to Jean-Baptiste Faure [1830-1914], Paris; sold c. 1881 to (Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris and New York); sold 1898 to Henry Osborne Havemeyer [1847-1907], New York; by inheritance to his wife, née Louisine Waldron Elder [1865-1929], New York; by inheritance to her son, Horace Havemeyer [d. 1956], New York; bequest 1956 to NGA.

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