# The Reading

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/the-reading-r261fe483582eee>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [MANET, Edouard](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 61 x 74 cm

## Commentary

Charming and seductive, Manet loved women rather as he loved flowers, and was always surrounded by willing models. For a while, he contended himself with portraying his wife in various poses, in Reading and in the pastel Madame Manet on a Blue Sofa.

## Related artworks

- [A Bar at the Folies-Bergère \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/a-bar-at-the-folies-bergre-detail-rfa641fb125e527>)
- [A Bar at the Folies-Bergère](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/a-bar-at-the-folies-bergre-r8094e80ad1d9d5>)
- [A Matador \(Matador Saluting\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/a-matador-matador-saluting-r6528d940a4e4cc>)
- [Argenteuil](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/argenteuil-r2f4dac903cd237>)
- [At Longchamp Racecourse](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/at-longchamp-racecourse-r843fec6f714dc2>)
- [At Père Lathuille](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/at-pre-lathuille-rced1c6576e0ee2>)
- [At the Café \(Bock Drinkers\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/at-the-caf-bock-drinkers-raba37f8e29881b>)
- [At the Café](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/at-the-caf-r46b4b987e64e94>)
- [Baudelaire Bareheaded, Full Face](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/baudelaire-bareheaded-full-face-r2b099fbf78760a>)
- [Baudelaire with Hat, in Profile](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/baudelaire-with-hat-in-profile-r475ca11c7cc64c>)
- [Baudelaire&#39;s Mistress Reclining](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/baudelaires-mistress-reclining-r86106bcc189f93>)
- [Bench in the Garden at Versailles](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/bench-in-the-garden-at-versailles-r7b633ead9be41a>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)