The Railway
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The Railway is an 1873 oil painting by Édouard Manet depicting a woman and a young girl by a Paris train station, notable for its modern urban subject and unconventional composition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Railway canonical | 3 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
ⓘ
painting ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Chemin de fer du Blanc-Argent
ⓘ
surface form:
Le Chemin de fer
The Railroad ⓘ |
| artworkStyle | modern painting ⓘ |
| collection |
National Gallery of Art
ⓘ
surface form:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
|
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Édouard Manet ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| depicts |
The Gare Saint-Lazare
ⓘ
surface form:
Gare Saint-Lazare
Paris ⓘ blue dress ⓘ dog ⓘ folding fan ⓘ iron fence ⓘ open book ⓘ railway bridge ⓘ steam ⓘ urban landscape ⓘ white dress ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt |
Salon of 1874
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris Salon of 1874
|
| genre | genre painting ⓘ |
| hasFemaleFigureModel | Victorine Meurent ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
industrialization
ⓘ
isolation in the city ⓘ modernity ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| hasTitleInLanguage | Le Chemin de fer (French) ⓘ |
| inception | 1873 ⓘ |
| influencedBy | modern life in Paris ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| location | National Gallery of Art ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
railway
ⓘ
train station ⓘ woman ⓘ young girl ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement |
Impressionism
ⓘ
Realism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
flattened pictorial space
ⓘ
modern urban subject matter ⓘ unconventional composition ⓘ use of strong contrasts of light and dark ⓘ |
| partOf | Manet’s late work of the 1870s ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 19th-century Paris ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.