Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
printed by Henri Charles Guérard (French, 1846-1897)
Line in Front of the Butcher Shop
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Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
printed by Henri Charles Guérard (French, 1846-1897)1870–71
Line in Front of the Butcher Shop
Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883) printed by Henri Charles Guérard (French, 1846-1897) →etchingprint
Date
1870–71
Medium
Etching in warm black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.9 × 15 cm (6 11/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Plate: 23.6 × 15.8 cm (9 5/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 26.7 × 17.8 cm (10 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Clarence Buckingham Collection
As a member of the National Guard during the Prussian siege of 1870, Edouard Manet witnessed the misery of wartime Paris. He wrote, "[The] butcher shops open only three times a week, and there are queues in front of their doors from four in the morning, and the last in line get nothing." The abstract patterns of arrayed umbrellas in this print recall the work of the Japanese printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige. The bayonet rising above the umbrellas, however, reveals the military presence required to control the hungry crowd.
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