Peonies in a vase

Edouard Manet

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Work Overview

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.