Édouard ManetFrankrijk, 1832–1883Het lezen
The Reading
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Musée d'Orsay
Parijs, Frankrijk
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- 29 sep 2026
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About the painting
Het lezen (Frans: La lecture) is een schilderij van Édouard Manet. Het is een portret van zijn vrouw Suzanne en zijn (stief)zoon Léon. Vermoedelijk is het werk rond 1865 geschilderd en later, tussen 1873 en 1875, bijgewerkt, waarbij het portret van Léon is toegevoegd. Sinds 1986 maakt het deel uit van de collectie van het Musée d'Orsay in Parijs.
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- RF 1944 17
Bronnen
- Wikidata · opgehaald 6 dagen geleden
- Afbeelding: Musée d'Orsay — Édouard Manet · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Intussen, in het leven van Édouard Manet
Het hele leven1863
“The Luncheon on the Grass” at the Salon des Refusés
The Salon of 1863 rejected “The Luncheon on the Grass” (originally “Le Bain”), and Manet exhibited it at the Salon des Refusés, a parallel exhibition initiated by Napoleon III after a public outcry, the jury having accepted only 2,217 of more than 5,000 submissions. The juxtaposition of dressed men and a nude woman and the sketch-like handling caused a scandal; one critic compared the brushwork to a “floor mop”.
1863
Marries Suzanne Leenhoff
In 1863, a year after his father's death, Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff at a Protestant church: a Dutch-born piano teacher two years his senior with whom he had been romantically involved for about ten years. Auguste Manet had employed her to teach his sons the piano, and she may also have been Auguste's mistress.
1863
Married: Suzanne Manet
1865
“Olympia” at the Salon: a scandal
In 1865 the Salon accepted “Olympia”, and the frank depiction of a self-assured prostitute created a scandal; according to Antonin Proust, only the precautions taken by the administration prevented the painting from being punctured and torn. The popular press caricatured it, while the avant-garde, including Courbet, Cézanne and Monet, championed it.
after 1865
Café Guerbois and the Batignolles group
After returning from Spain Manet became a regular at the Café Guerbois in the Batignolles quarter, where Fantin-Latour, Whistler, Duranty, Degas, Renoir, Monet and Pissarro gathered, with Émile Zola as Manet's ardent defender. After harsh reproaches from Duranty, Manet challenged him to a duel and wounded him, but they made up and remained good friends until Manet's death.
1867
His own pavilion near the Pont de l'Alma
In 1867, during the World's Fair in Paris, Manet set up his own pavilion near the Pont de l'Alma and showed fifty of his best works of the past ten years. Possibly this step led to his works being accepted at the next two Salons.
