Queue devant la boucherie (Line in Front of the Butcher Shop), Édouard Manet

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Édouard Manet, Queue devant la boucherie (Line in Front of the Butcher Shop)
Édouard Manet, Queue devant la boucherie (Line in Front of the Butcher Shop)
Édouard Manet
Queue devant la boucherie (Line in Front of the Butcher Shop)
1870–1871
Édouard Manet
1832–1883
Queue devant la boucherie (Line in Front of the Butcher Shop), 1870–1871
Where object was made: France
Material/technique: etching
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 231 x 159 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 450 x 320 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 1/8 x 6 1/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 17 11/16 x 12 5/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in
Credit line: Gift from the John and Ann Talleur Collection
Accession number: 2001.0153
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Exhibition Label: "Inspired by Japan," Mar-2003, Cori Sherman Manet, the ground-breaking painter of la vie moderne (modern life) of Paris, was drawn to Japanese prints at first introduction and thereafter assiduously collected them. Their unmodulated color expanses and tendency towards abstraction meshed with Manet’s own ideas for modern paintings of urban scenes. Manet was often considered by his peers one of the founding figures of the Japonisme movement in France. He depended on contour lines rather than illusionistic detail and shading to express his forms. This etching of war-time scarcity is widely considered to be the high point of Manet’s Japonisme. The mass of overlapping bodies under umbrellas can be related to Hokusai’s similar grouping of samurai in the rain found in the Manga, volume I. Manet’s Japoniste birdseye view of the scene is schematically rendered with Asian-inspired negative spaces helping to define the figural forms arranged in an unusual zig-zag diagonal pattern.