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Woman Reading, 1880–82. Oil on canvas.
A woman in a dark hat holds an open illustrated newspaper. Quick touches of green and red fill the space behind her, contrasting with the broad dark shapes of her clothes.
Oil on canvas · 61.2 × 50.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Woman Reading
- Artist
- Édouard Manet
- Date
- 1880–82
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.2 × 50.7 cm (24 1/16 × 19 7/8 in.); Framed: 83.2 × 73.1 × 9.9 cm (32 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.