Sunday, April 27, 10:15 – 11am
Édouard Manet. Laundry (detail), 1875. The Barnes Foundation, BF957. Public Domain.
Free; registration required.
About the Talk
Each month, members of our education, research, and curatorial teams present their ongoing research on the collection to members. These talks are a great way to learn more about your favorite artists and works.
Édouard Manet never exhibited with the impressionists but was nevertheless crowned a luminary of the movement by his contemporaries. He was a Parisian par excellence—he hated the countryside. This fact makes Laundry, a work depicting a simple domestic scene painted en plein air, all the more fascinating. In this talk, gallery specialist Michael Iovanne will take an in-depth look at the painting to show how Manet used light and color to turn the mundane into a masterwork and defined a movement in the process.
This talk will take place in Room 2 of the collection galleries.
Édouard Manet. Laundry, 1875. The Barnes Foundation, BF957. Public Domain.
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