Division and Revision: Manet's Reichshoffen Revealed

by Juliet Wilson-Bareau

Manet's well-known painting in the National Gallery, London, of a caf -concert--a kind of cabaret performance that was the latest fashion in Paris of the 1870s--has a peculiar history. The painter initially planned an ambitious canvas with which he grew dissatisfied, then cut in two, one half being the painting in the National Gallery and the other half now in Winterthur in Switzerland. He repainted both fragments to make each a picture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903470773
• ISBN13: 9781903470770
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 11.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher