To our left, a young woman sits facing us on a low stone wall at the base of the vertical, black bars of an iron fence and a young girl stands facing away from us to our right in this horizontal painting.

Faces of France

The Railway

Édouard Manet

artist Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

date 1873

medium Oil on canvas

origin France

dimensions 93.3 × 111.5 cm

credit line Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer

hall 16 Faces of France

rights public domain (CC0)

National Gallery of Art, Washington Full image

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