Sketches of Snails, Flowering Plant
Édouard Manet · 1864/68 · Watercolor over graphite pencil on cream laid paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Sketches of Snails, Flowering Plant is a public-domain drawing by Édouard Manet, dated 1864/68. Watercolor over graphite pencil on cream laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Sketches of Snails, Flowering Plant” (1864/68) keeps the scale of an old exhibition picture, but the subject is modern Paris: a café, a street, or someone Manet knew.
About the artist
Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was a French painter who kept the scale of old exhibition pictures but painted modern Paris: cafés, streets, and friends. Younger Impressionists looked to him even though he did not join their shows.
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