Madame Manet dans le Jardin de Bellevue (1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)

Madame Manet dans le Jardin de Bellevue (Madame Manet in the Garden at Bellevue)
1880
Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 60.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York

Despite the seemingly rapid brushwork and the summary treatment of detail, this painting was preceded by at least two drawings and an oil sketch. This is Manet‘s last portrait of his wife; it was painted at Bellevue, a suburb of Paris, where they spent the summer of 1880. (MET)

See also:

Bellevue, Meudon (France) | Manet, Suzanne (1830-1906)