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The Brioche
ArtistÉdouard Manet
Year1870
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions65.1 cm × 81 cm (25.6 in × 32 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession1991.287

The Brioche is a painting completed in 1870 by French artist Édouard Manet. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts a brioche loaf resting on a table. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

Manet was inspired to paint it after a painting of a brioche by 18th-century artist Jean Siméon Chardin was donated to the Louvre in Paris. In Manet's work the brioche is accompanied by peaches and plums. It is singular among Manet's still-lifes for its formality, and mark the last time he would paint such an elaborate tabletop composition.[2]

La Brioche by Chardin, 1763, Louvre

References

  1. ^ "The Brioche,1870". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  2. ^ Mauner, G. L., & Loyrette, H. Manet: The Still-life Paintings. New York: H.N. Abrams in association with the American Federation of Arts, 2000. p. 43. ISBN 0-8109-4391-3.
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