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 Manet was one of the first to take the railway station as a modern subject. Unlike Monet's series on trains, Manet used the trains and stations as a backdrop.The women is Victorine who reappeared ten years after posing for 'Olympia'. This was the only painting by Manet accepted by the Salon in 1873.
The critics did not like this painting and renamed it; 'Two sufferers from incurable Manet-mania watch the cars go by, through the bars of a madhouse. |
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