Roses in a Champagne Glass

Edouard Manet

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Work Overview

Roses in a Champagne Glass
Edouard Manet
Date: c.1882; Paris, France *
Style: Realism
Genre: still life
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 24.8 x 32.4 cm
Location: Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK


Like Cézanne and Monet, whom he was to influence, Manet found in the obedient and ever-available still life a laboratory for experiments in colour. He transferred his discoveries to other compositions and, like Cézanne and Monet, he revealed a curious obsession with sparkling whiteness; he too wanted to paint tables set with white tablecloths "like a layer of freshly fallen snow", (Still life with Melon and Peaches, Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art).