{"data":{"id":14591,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/14591","is_boosted":true,"title":"Woman Reading","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBAAFAPQAAB8bHCAdHjQwLTgyLEQ+N0dORUVJSFtRSlRbTE5UWmFbTWVvWXBrX21saH15a35\/c4qGe4WIfoqKfYiOfQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAEAAUAAAUR4LQUiPQcRhNBCeMQgTIIQAgAOw==","width":12091,"height":14939,"alt_text":"A young woman in a dark hat and coat with light ruffled collar sits reading a large periodical held up in her gloved hands. Flowers and foliage are suggested behind her."},"main_reference_number":"1933.435","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1880,"date_end":1882,"date_display":"1880\u201382","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"\u00c9douard Manet (French, 1832\u20131883)","place_of_origin":"France","description":"<p>During the late nineteenth century, Parisian caf\u00e9s were the gathering places of artists and writers and were ideal locations for observing the urban scene. Many Impressionist paintings depict the Caf\u00e9 Nouvelle-Ath\u00e8nes on the rue Pigalle, where two tables were reserved for \u00c9douard Manet and his circle\u2014a group that included the painters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/40543\/hilaire-germain-edgar-degas\">Edgar Degas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/35809\/claude-monet\">Claude Monet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/36211\/camille-pissarro\">Camille Pissarro<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/36351\/pierre-auguste-renoir\">Pierre-Auguste Renoir<\/a>, and the writers Charles Baudelaire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artworks\/144678\/emile-zola-french-novelist-playwright-and-journalist-1840-1902\">\u00c9mile Zola<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, this fashionably dressed young woman appears to have been captured sitting at a favorite caf\u00e9: the marble tabletop, beer mug, and magazine attached to a wooden bar suggest such a setting, and her heavy clothing and kid gloves indicate that she is at an outdoor table and that the weather is cool. However, the floral background is actually one of Manet's paintings and the caf\u00e9 a re-creation in his studio.<\/p>\n<p><em>Woman Reading<\/em> is one of the most Impressionist of Manet\u2019s images; the quick, free brushstrokes and light colors are characteristic of his technique late in his career. Painted only a few years before his death, this work admirably captures a fleeting moment, the sense of modern life that Manet and his contemporaries sought to represent.<\/p>\n","short_description":"\u00c9douard Manet was a pivotal figure in the development of Impressionism and modern art. Here, an elegantly dressed Parisian woman reads a magazine, a beer close at hand\u2014a scene that would have struck contemporary viewers as fashionable and modern. While the woman appears to be outdoors, one of Manet\u2019s paintings serves as a backdrop and other props suggest the scene was staged in Manet\u2019s studio.","dimensions":"61.2 \u00d7 50.7 cm (24 1\/16 \u00d7 19 7\/8 in.); Framed: 83.2 \u00d7 73.1 \u00d7 9.9 cm (32 3\/4 \u00d7 28 3\/4 \u00d7 3 7\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":50,"height":61,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":9,"width":73,"height":83,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower left: Manet","credit_line":"Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Th\u00e9odore Duret, Histoire d\u2019\u00c9douard Manet et de son oeuvre (Paris, 1902), no. 255.\n\nTh\u00e9odore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists (London, 1910), p. 251, no. 255.\n\nL\u00e9on Leenhoff, Manet: Ensemble de notes et de documents sur le peintre, c. 1910. Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, Estampes et photographie, RESERVE 8-YB3-2401, fol. 81, https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b10548955r\n\nEtienne Moreau-N\u00e9laton, Manet: Racont\u00e9 par lui-m\u00eame vol. 2 (Paris, 1926), p. 53, fig. 241, 346 (ill.).\n\n\u201cAus der soeben er\u00f6ffneten Impressionisten-Sonderausstellung,\u201d Der Cicerone 20, 3 (February 1928), p. 113 (ill.).\n\nArt News 27, 40 (September 1929), p. 12 (ill.).\n\n\u201cChicago Women Acquires a Famous Manet,\u201d Art Digest 4 (October 1, 1929), p. 11 (ill.).\n\n\u201cModern Art in New York,\u201d Kunst und K\u00fcnstler 28, 2 (November 1929), p. 82 (ill.).\n\nThe Art 16, 6 (1930), p. 411 (ill.).\n\nA. Tabarant,  Manet: Histoire catalographique (Paris, 1931), p. 341, no. 293.\n\nPaul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet (Paris, 1932), vol. 1, p. 161, no. 334, vol. 2, p. 71, fig. 158.\n\n\u201cMasterpieces of the French Impressionists,\u201d The Fine Arts 19, 1 (June 1932), p. 23 (ill.).\n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \u201cThe Bequest of Mrs. L. L. Coburn,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 26 (1932), pp. 67 (ill.), 68.\n\n\u201cL\u2019Exposition d\u2019Art fran\u00e7ais de l\u2019Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Formes 33 (1933), p. 382.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1936), p. 34.\n\nTh\u00e9odore Duret, Manet, trans. J. E. Crawford Flitch (New York, 1937), pl. 37.\n\nA. M. Franfurter, \u201cManet, First American Retrospective,\u201d Art News (March 20, 1937), p. 24.\n\nArts and Dekorations 46 (April 1937), p. 19 (ill.).\n\nRobert Rey, Manet (New York, 1938), pp. 69 (ill.) 162, no. 69.\n\nA. Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres (Paris, 1947), pp. 237, 328, 541, no. 297 (ill.).\n\nCharles Fabens Kelley, \u201cChicago: Record Years,\u201d Art News 51, 4 (1952), p. 107.\n\n\u201cFrench Painters: VIII. Edouard Manet,\u201d Apollo (February 1953), pp. 49\u201352, (ill.) 49.\n\nEric Newton, \u201cFrench Painters, VIII-\u00c9douard Manet,\u201d Apollo 57 (1953), p. 49.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 34.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 27, (ill.) 259.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors, \u201c Apollo 84 (September 1966), pp. 203, (ill) 201, fig. 29.\n\nGeorge Heard Hamilton, \u201cIs Manet Still Modern?,\u201d Art News 31 (1966), p. 162.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Calendar 61, 1 (January 1967), pp. 4, 5 (ill.).\n\nPhoebe Pool and Sandra Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Manet (New York, 1967), no. 261 (ill.).\n\nDenis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9: Peintures vol. 1 (Paris, 1975), p. 244, no. 313 (ill.).\n\nAnne Coffin Hanson, Manet and the Modern Tradition (New York, 1977), pp. 66, 174, pl. 7, fig. 113.\n\nDiane Kelder, Great Book of Impressionism (New York, 1980), p. 113 (ill.).\n\nKathleen Adler, Manet (Oxford, 1986), pp. 200-1 (ill.).\n\nRichard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), ill.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1988), p. 62 (ill.).\n\nRobert Snell, \u201cSeen Through A Temperament,\u201d Times Literary Supplement (December 15, 2000), p. 17.\n\nThe Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 21, p. 61 (ill.).\n\n\u201cManet, Cat. 19, Woman Reading: Tombstone,\u201d in Manet Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/manet\/reader\/manetart\/section\/140020\">https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/manet\/reader\/manetart\/section\/140020L<\/a>.\n\nScott Allan, Emily A. Beeny, and Gloria Groom, Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist\u2019s Last Years (Los Angeles: Getty, 2019), iv (detail), 13, 80, 87n 42, 87n44, 152, 158n14, 238 cat. 56, 303-04.\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 95 (ill.).\n\nEmily A. Beeny, ed., Manet & Morisot, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 54, 147, 299, pl. 63.","exhibition_history":"Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des Oeuvres de \u00c9douard Manet, January 1884, cat. 92.\n\nPittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings: \u00c9douard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot, October\u2013December 1924, cat. 37 (ill.).\n\nParis, Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition des Oeuvre de Manet, 1925, cat. 78.\n\nParis, Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition des Oeuvre de Manet, April\u2013May 1928, cat. 25 (ill.).\n\nBerlin, Goldschmidt Galerie, Impressionisten Sondersusstellung, 1928.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection, 1932, cat. 17 (ill.).\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1\u2013November 1, 1933, cat. 328.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1\u2013November 1, 1934, cat. 249.\n\nNew York, Wildenstein & Co., Edouard Manet: A Retrospective Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of French Hospitals, March\u2013April 1937, cat. 29 (ill.).\n\nSan Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition 1940, cat. 276 (ill.).\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Painting From David Toulouse-Lautrec, February\u2013March 1941, cat. 81.\n\nDes Moines, Iowa, Art Center, 19th and 20th Century European and American Art, 1948, no cat.\n\nBirmingham, Ala., Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Opening Exhibition, April 8\u2013June 3, 1951, p. 29.\n\nThe Philadelphia Museum of Art, Manet, November 3\u2013December 11, 1966, cat. 161 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 13\u201319, 1967.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial, June 19\u2013August 8, 1976, extended to August 15, 1976, no cat. \n\nAlbi, Mus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec, Tr\u00e9sors Impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, June 27\u2013August 31, 1980, cat. 4 (ill.).\n\nWashington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Manet and Modern Paris, December 5, 1982\u2013March 6, 1983, cat. 22 (ill.).\n\nParis, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Manet: 1832\u20131883, April 22\u2013August 1, 1983, cat. 174 (ill.); traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 10\u2013November 27, 1983.\n\nTokyo, Seibu, Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18\u2013December 17, 1985, cat. 34 (ill.); traveled to Fukuoka, Art Museum, January 5\u2013February 2, 1986; and Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4\u2013April 13, 1986.\n\nTokyo, ASAHI, Masterworks of Modern Art From The Art Institute of Chicago, 1994, cat. 9 (ill.); traveled to Nagaoka, Niiagata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art; and Yokohama Museum of Art, 1994-1995. \n\nLondon, National Gallery, Impressions: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890, November 1, 2000-January 28, 2001, no cat. no. (ill.); Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, March 2-May 20, 2001; Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, June 16-September 9, 2001. \n\nFort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013November 2, 2008, cat. 21 (ill.).\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Manet and Modern Beauty, May 26 - September 8, 2019, cat no. 56; The J. Paul Getty Museum, October 8, 2019\u2013January 12, 2020.\n\nFine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Manet & Morisot, Oct. 11, 2025-Feb. 15, 2026, no cat. no., pl. 63; Cleveland Museum of Art, Mar. 29\u2013July 5, 2026 (Cleveland only)","provenance_text":"The artist; sold to Jean-Baptiste Faure (d. 1914), Paris, March 1882 [per Leenhoff, c. 1910, published online, fol. 81, https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b10548955r]; by descent to his son, Maurice Faure (1862-1915), Paris, probably through 1928 [per Tabarant 1931, p. 341; according to Bernheim-Jeune exhibition label on the stretcher from 1928, the painting was possibly still with the family]. Possibly Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1928 or 1929 [per Allan, Beeny, and Groom,  2019, p. 303]. Howard Young Galleries, New York, by 1929; sold to Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn (n\u00e9e Annie Swan, d. 1932), Chicago, 1929 [per Art News 27, 40 (Sept. 14, 1929), p. 12]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":14,"fiscal_year":1940,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":true,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":0,"color":{"h":37,"l":50,"s":12,"percentage":0.10883350068191702,"population":956},"latitude":null,"longitude":null,"latlon":null,"is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 201","gallery_id":2147483643,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","department_id":"PC-10","artist_id":35577,"artist_title":"\u00c9douard Manet","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[35577],"artist_titles":["\u00c9douard Manet"],"category_ids":["PC-10"],"category_titles":["Painting and Sculpture of Europe"],"term_titles":["oil on canvas","oil painting","everyday life (genre)","oil paint (paint)","Impressionism","table","reading","painting","magazine","floral","fashion","black (color)","nineteenth century","19th century","painting techniques","painting","painting","paint","canvas","french","paint","oil paintings (visual works)","tankard","beer","painting","european painting","painting (image making)","women","portraits","leisure","urban life","Century of Progress","world's fairs","Chicago World's Fairs"],"style_id":"TM-7543","style_title":"Impressionism","alt_style_ids":["TM-15636","TM-13203"],"style_ids":["TM-7543","TM-15636","TM-13203"],"style_titles":["Impressionism","nineteenth century","19th century"],"classification_id":"TM-66","classification_title":"oil on canvas","alt_classification_ids":["TM-14976","TM-10387","TM-78","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_ids":["TM-66","TM-14976","TM-10387","TM-78","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_titles":["oil on canvas","french","paint","oil paintings (visual works)","painting","european painting"],"subject_id":"TM-10096","alt_subject_ids":["TM-14175","TM-12651","TM-12737","TM-13309","TM-12217","TM-8663","TM-11845","TM-14177","TM-12650","TM-8735","TM-8658","TM-10094","TM-10126","TM-12169","TM-11299","TM-12176"],"subject_ids":["TM-10096","TM-14175","TM-12651","TM-12737","TM-13309","TM-12217","TM-8663","TM-11845","TM-14177","TM-12650","TM-8735","TM-8658","TM-10094","TM-10126","TM-12169","TM-11299","TM-12176"],"subject_titles":["everyday life (genre)","table","reading","painting","magazine","floral","fashion","black (color)","tankard","beer","women","portraits","leisure","urban life","Century of Progress","world's fairs","Chicago World's Fairs"],"material_id":"TM-2451","alt_material_ids":["TM-13502","TM-2577","TM-3124"],"material_ids":["TM-2451","TM-13502","TM-2577","TM-3124"],"material_titles":["oil paint (paint)","painting","paint","canvas"],"technique_id":"TM-4273","alt_technique_ids":["TM-3971","TM-14210","TM-3891"],"technique_ids":["TM-4273","TM-3971","TM-14210","TM-3891"],"technique_titles":["oil painting","painting techniques","painting","painting (image making)"],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"fd991fea-0c13-8444-7879-aba467f1d9db","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":["bdee9d09-17d2-c873-2f06-687dd91eb7c3"],"sound_ids":["bdee9d09-17d2-c873-2f06-687dd91eb7c3"],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[39219322395],"section_titles":["Cat. 19 \u00a0Woman Reading, 1880\/82"],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_boosted":"Woman Reading","suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1933.435"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Woman Reading"],"weight":12477,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-10-01T14:58:21-05:00","updated_at":"2026-10-05T23:27:20-05:00","timestamp":"2026-10-13T01:52:04-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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