The Fishing
The story
A fishing party on a riverbank, with Manet himself and his future wife Suzanne dressed up in seventeenth-century costume. Painted around 1862, it borrows poses and motifs from older masters like Rubens and reworks them for a modern audience.
- Artist
- Édouard Manet
- Year
- 1862
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, online
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
