Peonies in a vase Edouard Manet Date: 1864; Paris, France * Style: Realism Genre: still life Media: oil, canvas Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Although quite numerous, a fifth of his entire oeuvre, Manet did not consider his still lifes in the way we do today. Flexible but consistent categories governed his work: primacy of the senses, impact on the imagination and the compositional imperative. His best still lifes held a modest position in this hierarchy.
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