Édouard Manet - The Reading

                                            

The Reading

  Artist:            Édouard Manet

  Title:              The Reading

  Year:                1865-1873

  Medium:         Oil on canvas

  Location:        Museé d´Orsay, Paris

  Dimensions:    61 x 74 cm

The Reading painting is a work of art by the French painter Édouard Manet. This painting was created between 1865 and 1873 as an oil painting on canvas. 

Details: The painting on which the artist Suzanne Manet was portrayed, shows the artist sitting on the sofa and her son Leon standing and reading a book.

In this work the white woman´s dress dominated and the sofa and curtains are treated with broad strokes of high brightness, as a counterpoint to the dark tone of the belt and collar.