# Vase of Peonies on a Pedestal [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MANET, Edouard]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 93 x 70 cm ## Commentary Still-lifes have a great importance in Manet's work. They account for a fifth of his oeuvre, quite apart from the many pictures within pictures, such as the dress and basket in the foreground of the Déjeuner or the bouquet in Olympia. All of Manet's most important works contain a magisterial still-life, from the desk and passe-partout in the Portrait of Émile Zola, the arms and carefully laid table of Luncheon in the Studio to the mugs in The Waitress or the oranges in the Bar in the Folies-Bergère. ## Related artworks - [A Bar at the Folies-Bergère \(detail\)]() - [A Bar at the Folies-Bergère]() - [A Matador \(Matador Saluting\)]() - [Argenteuil]() - [At Longchamp Racecourse]() - [At Père Lathuille]() - [At the Café \(Bock Drinkers\)]() - [At the Café]() - [Baudelaire Bareheaded, Full Face]() - [Baudelaire with Hat, in Profile]() - [Baudelaire's Mistress Reclining]() - [Bench in the Garden at Versailles]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()