The Cats (Les chats)
Edouard Manet · 1869 · etching
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About this picture
The Cats (Les chats) is a public-domain illustration by Edouard Manet, dated 1869. Etching. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Cats (Les chats)” (1869) 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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