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image of The Railway
Edouard Manet (artist)
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
On View
From the Tour: Impressionism
Object 1 of 8
1874Journal Amusant no. 927 (6 June 1874):
1874L'Illustration 63 (23 May 1874): 341
1876Claretie, Jules. L'Art et les artistes française contemporains. Paris, 1876:259-260
1883"Mistaken Impressions." Punch (May 1883): 208.
1884Bazire, Edmond. Manet. Paris, 1884:84
1884Péladan. "Le Procédé de Manet." L'Artiste I (February 1884): 115
1892Castagnary. Salons (1857-1879). 2 vols. Paris, 1892: 118.
1897Proust, Antonin. "Edouard Manet. Souvenirs." La Revue blanche (February- May 1897): 179
1902Duret, Theodore. Histoire d'Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre. Paris, 1902:no. 152, repro.
1908Masters in Art: Edouard Manet. Boston, 1908: 27, 40-41, repro.
1908Duret, Theordore. "Edouard Manet et les impressionnistes." In Histoire du paysage en France. Paris, 1908: 308-309.
1910Duret, Theodore. Manet and the French Impressionists. Translated by J.E. Crawfor Flitch. London and Philadelphia, 1910:69-70, 76, 233.
1912Hourticq, Louis, Jean Laran and Georges Le Bas. French Artists of Our Day: Edouard Manet. Philadelphia, 1912: 65-66, repro.
1913Proust, Antonin. Edouard Manet. Paris, 1913: 73, repro.
1919Duret, Theodore. Historie de Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre. Paris, 1919: 112-115, 136-138, 141-142, 167, 256.
1923Waldmann, Emil. Edouard Manet. Berlin, 1923:78, repro.
1925Blanche, J.E. Manet. New York, 1925:30, 46-52.
1926Moreau-Nelaton, Etienne. Manet reconte par lui-meme. 2 vols. Paris, 1926: II:11-13, 36-37, 114
1927Jamot, Paul. "Manet, 'Le fifre' et Victorine Meurend." La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne LI, no. 282 (January 1927): 36
1930Tabarant, A. "Les Manet de la Collection Havemeyers." (La Renaissance (Feruary 1930: 72.
1932Jamot, Paul and Georges Wildenstein. Manet. 2 vols. Paris, 1932:I:no. 231.
1932Huyghe, Rene. "Manet, peintre." L'Amour de l'art 13, no. 5 (May 1932): 184.
1932Colin, Paul. Edouard Manet. Paris, 1932: 40-41, 74, repro.
1933Rich, Daniel Catton. "The Exhibition of French Art "Art Institute" of Chicago." Formes 33 (1933): 382
1937Lewisohn, Samuel. Painters and Personality: A Collector's View of Modern Art. New York, 1937:238, repro.
1940Frankfurter, Alfred M. "The Four Great Impressionists." Art News XXXVIII, no. 25 (23 March 1940): 6-7, 17, repro.
1941Jedlicka, Gotthard. Edouard Manet. Zurich, 1941: 299
1945Malarme, Stephen. "Le jury de peinture pour 1874 et Manet." In L'oeuvres completes. Paris, 1945: 695+
1946Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, 1946:263, repro.
1947Florisoone, Michel. Manet. Monoco, 1947: xiv, xvi, 115, 120, repro.
1947Tabarant, A. Manet et ses oeuvres. Paris, 1947: 221-2, 244-5, 317, 491
1948Bex, Maurice. Manet. Columbia series. New York, 1948: repro
1949Blanche, Jacques Émile. La Pêche aux souvenirs. Paris, 1949:142-143
1954Hamilton, George HEard. Manet and His Critics. New Haven, 1954: 162, 176, 178-182, 187, 195, 208, 211, 265, repro.
1954Chan, Georges. "Les peintres impressionnistes et le chemin de fer." La Vie du rail no. 476 (1954):19+, repro.
1955Vaudoyer, J.-L. É. Manet. Paris, 1955, no. 36, repro.
1955Bataille, Georges. Manet. Lausanne, 1955: 12.
1956Frankfurter, Alfred. "Fifty-five years of U.S. Museums." Art News 56, no. 4 (Summer 1956): 50-51, repro.
1957Comstock, Helen. "A Great Manet for the National Gallery." Coinnoisseur CXXXIX, no. 561 (May 1957): 202-203, repro.
1959Evans, Grose. French Painting of the 19th Century in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Two in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 26, color repro.
1959Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Midas on Parnassus." Art News Annual XXVIII (1959): 38, repro.
1961Havemeyer, Louisine W. Sixteen to Sixty: Memoires of a Collector. New York, 1961:220, 236-240.
1962Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 158, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 256, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 81
1966Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:426, color repro.
1966Hamilton, George Heard. "Is Manet Still Modern?" Art News Annual XXXI (1966): 120-121, 160, 162, repro.
1966Gimpel, René. Diary of an Art Dealer. Translated by John Rosenberg. New York, 1966: 121.
1968Schneider, Pierre. The World of Manet, 1832-1883. New York, 1968: 132-133, 136, 140, repro.
1968Liebman, Kurt. Edouard Manet. Dresden, 1968: 67, repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture: Illustrations (Companion to the Summary Catalogue, 1965). Washington, 1968: 71, no. 1454, repro.
1968Berhaut, Marie. Caillbotte l'Impressioniste. Lausanne, 1968:34-35
1969Jaffé, Ludwig G. The World of Impressionism. Maplewood, N.J., 1969: 39, repro.
1970Oriente, Sandra. The Complete Paintings of Manet. London, 1970: no. 180, repro.
1971Nochlin, Linda. Realism. Baltimore, 1971: 162, 264, repro.
1972Bazin, Germain. Edouard Manet. Milan, 1972: 9, 42
1972Hanson, Anne Coffin. "Popular Imagery and the Work of Edouard Manet" in French Nineteenth Century Paintings and Literature, Ulrich Finke, ed. New York, 1972:135-138
1973Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, 1973: 326-7, 482, repro.
1974Callen, Anthea. "Faure and Manet." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 83 (March 1974): 157-178.
1975Lipton, Eunice. "Manet: A Radicalized Female Imagery." Artforum XIII, no. 1 (March 1975):20, 52, repro.
1975Mauner, George. Manet: Peintre-Philosophe. University Park and London, 1975: 159
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 210, repro.
1975Weisberg, Gabriel P. "Aspects of Japanisme." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62 (April 1975):126-128, repro.
1975Rouart, Denis and Daniel Wildenstein. Edouard Manet: catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. Lausanne, Paris, 1975: I: no. 207, repro.
1976Richardson, John. Manet. Oxford, 1976:plate. 27.
1976Bellony-Rewald, Alice. The Lost World of the Impressionists. London, 1976:188, 191, 193, repro.
1976Dorival, Bernard. "Ukiyo-e and European Painting." in Dialogue in Art: Japan and the West. ed. Chisaburo F. Yanada. Tokyo and New York, 1976: 36, repro.
1977Hanson, Anne Coffin. Manet and the Modern Tradition. New Haven and London, 1977:77,190, repro. 120
1978Cogniat, Raymond and Antoine Terrasse. Le impressionistes. Geneva, 1978: 127-128, repro.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 110, pl. 96, color repro.
1979Walter, Rudolphe. "Saint LAzare l'impressioniste." L'Oeil 292 (November 1979): 48-55, repro.
1980Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York, 1980: 79, 127, 102, repro.
1981Farwell, Beatrice. Manet and the Nude: A Study in Iconography in the Second Empire. New York, 1981: 160-163, repro.
1982Isaacson, Joel. "Impressionism and Journalistic Illustration." Arts Magazine 56, no. 10 (une 1982): 107, epro.
1982Tucker, Paul Hayes. Monet at Argenteuil. New Haven, 1982: 149, repro.
1983Feaver, William. "What Makes Manet Modern?" Art News (December 1983):55+, repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 454, no. 658, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 243, repro.
1986Weitzenhoffer, Frances. The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America. New York, 1986:102, 129, 212, repro.
1986The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886. Exh. cat. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; National Gallery of Art, Washington. San Francisco, 1986: 20-21, repro.
1986Gay, Peter. Art and Act: On Causes in History - Manet, Gropius, Mondrian. New York, 1986:104-110, repro.
1987Rand, Harry. Manet's Contemplation at the Gare Saint-Lazare. Berkeley, 1987:11
1987Rand, Harry. "To the Gare Saint-Lazare." Arts 61, no. 5 (January 1987):52+, repro.
1988Hobbs, Richard, ed. Impressions of French Modernity. Manchester and New York, 1988: 51-53, repro.
1988Reff, Theodore. "Manet and the Paris of His Time," in Kunst um 1800 und die Folgen: Werner Hofmann zu Ehren. Munich, 1988: 247+, repro.
1989Distel, Anne. Les collectionneurs des impressionnistes. Amateurs et marchands. Paris, 1989:81, repro.
1991Cranshaw, Roger and Adrian Lewis. "Manet's 'Le Chemin de Fer; (1872-3): Producing the Art Historical Text." Issues (Journal of the Faculties of Architecture, Art and Design at Polytechnic of East London):2 (Winter 1991-1992):78+, repro.
1991Coman, Florence E. and Elizabeth P. Streicher. Joie de Vivre: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1991:10.
1991Darragon, Eric. Manet. Paris, 1991: 244-246, repro.
1991Bareau, Juliet Wilson, ed. Manet by himself: paintings, pastels, prints & drawings. London, 1991: repro.
1992Stevenson, Lesley. Manet. New York, 1992: 155, repro.
1992Feist, Peter H. Der Impressionismus in Frankreich. Vol. I of Malerie des Impressionismus 1860-1920. Ed. Ingo F. Walther. 2 vols. Cologne, 1992: 1:95, repro.
1992Weisberg, Gabriel P. Beyond Impressionism: The Naturalist Impulse. New York, 1992: 13, repro.
1992Carr-Gomm, Sarah. Manet. London, 1992: 100, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 192, repro.
1993Perutz, Vivien. Edouard Manet. London, 1993: repro. plate 42.
1993Galligan, Gregory. "The Self Picture: Manet, the Mirror, and the Occupation of Realist Painting." Art Bulletin 80, no. 1 (March 1993): 153-154, repro.
1993Manoeuvre, Laurent. Manet-Paris. Paris, 1993:56, repro.
1994Gonse, Louis. "Manet." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 2e periode (February 1994): 146.
1994Lemaire, Gerard-Georges. Manet. Milan, 1994:repro. 25.
1994Kranzfelder. Edward Hopper 1882-1967: Vision der Wirklichkeit. Cologne, 1994: 67, repro.
1994Rubin, James H. Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets. Cambridge, 1994: 79, repro.
1995Esterow, Milton. "Did You Ever See Anything More Beautiful?" Art News 94 (November 1995): 264.
1995Meixner, Laura L. French Realist Painting and the Critique of American Society 1865-1900. Cambridge, 1995: 197, repro.
1996Körner, Hans. Edouard Manet: Dandy, Flaneur, Maler. Munich, 1996: 157-158, 230, color fig. 127.
1996Rathbone, Eliza E., et al. Impressionists on the Seine: A Celebration of Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party. Washington, 1996: 25, repro. 49.
1996Galassi, Peter. Henri Cartier-Bresson:The Early Work. New York, 1996:repro.
1997Solana, Guillermo, ed. El Impresionismo: La visión original: Antologia de la critica de arte (1867-1895). Madrid, 1997: repro.
1997Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York, 1997: no. 90, repro.
1998Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare. Exh. cat. Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: no. 21.
1998Lumpkin, Libby. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters. Las Vegas, 1998: 35-37, repro.
1998Roters, Eberhard. Malerei des 19.Jahrhunderts: Theme und Motive. 2 vols. Cologne, 1998:I:208, repro.
1998La peinture moderne des impressionnistes aux avant-gardes. Paris, 1998:repro. 104.
1998Coignard, Jérôme. "L'impressionnisme à tout vapeur." L'Oeil 493 (Feruary 1998): 37+, repro.
1999Brettell, Richard R. Monet to Moore: the millennium gift of the Sarah Lee Corportation. New Haven, 1999: 137, repro.
1999Lumpkin, Libby, ed. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters. Las Vegas, 1999: 66, repro.
1999Loughery, John. "Urban Drama." The Hudson Review LI, no. 4 (Winter 1999):727-729.
1999De Seta, Cesare. Il secolo della borghesia. Turin, 1999:167-169, repro.
2000Simpson, Marc. "'Offenbarungen für das Auge': Winslow Homers Milkmaids." Belvedere (2000):56-57.
2000Gallati, Barbara Dayer. "William Merritt Chase and the French Connection." Antiques (July 2000): 78, repro.
2000Fried, Michael. Le modernisme de Manet. Paris: 43, repro.
2000Duve, Thierry de. Voici, 100 ans d'art contemporain. Exh. cat., Palais des beaux-arts, Brussels, 2000: 131+, repro.
2001Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA II: Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. Chicago, 2001: 4-5, 206, color repro.
2004Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 361-362, no. 297, color repro.
2006Søndergaard, Sidsel Maria. Women in Impressionism: From Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman. Exh. cat. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Milan, 2006: 163 fig. 127.
2011Bell, Julian. "Manet: Sudden Sensuous Dazzle." Review of Manet: Inventeur du Moderne. Exh. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2011. New York Review of Books 58, no. 12 (July 14, 2011): 19.

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