Woman Reading

Museum record 14591: Woman Reading by Édouard Manet. A verified entry point for discovery.

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During the late nineteenth century, Parisian cafés were the gathering places of artists and writers and were ideal locations for observing the urban scene. Many Impressionist paintings depict the Café Nouvelle-Athènes on the rue Pigalle, where two tables were reserved for Édouard Manet and his circle—a group that included the painters Edgar Degas , Claude Monet , Camille Pissarro , and Pierre-Auguste Renoir , and the writers Charles Baudelaire and Émile Zola . At first glance, this fashionably dressed yo…