””’Repose””’ ([[French language|French]]: ””’Le Repos””’, ‘Rest’) is an oil on canvas painting by French painter [[Édouard Manet]], from {{circa|1871}}. It is held in the [[Rhode Island School of Design Museum]], in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection/repose-le-repos-59027|title=Repose (Le Repos) | RISD Museum|website=risdmuseum.org}}</ref>
””’Repose””’ ([[French language|French]]: ””’Le Repos””’, ‘Rest’) is an oil on canvas painting by French painter [[Édouard Manet]], from {{circa|1871}}. It is held in the [[Rhode Island School of Design Museum]], in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection/repose-le-repos-59027|title=Repose (Le Repos) | RISD Museum|website=risdmuseum.org}}</ref>
The painting is a portrait of the artist [[Berthe Morisot]], a regular model, who was married to Manet’s brother, [[Eugène Manet|Eugène]]. She is wearing a white dress as she sits with a fan in her right hand on a red sofa, beneath a then-fashionable Japanese print (in this case ”The Dragon King Pursuing the Ama with the Sacred Jewel” by [[Utagawa Kuniyoshi]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ives |first1=Colta Feller |title=The Great Wave: The Influence Of Japanese Woodcuts On French Prints |date=1979 |publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |isbn=0-87099-098-5 |page=25 |edition=Fourth printing |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/the-great-wave-the-influence-of-japanese-woodcuts-on-french-prints |access-date=1 June 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/the-great-wave.-the-influence-of-japanese-woodcuts-on-french-prints.-met./ |archive-date=4 March 2023 |url-status=live |language=en}}</ref> Her gaze seems meditative and absent. There is a striking contrast between the light tone of her dress and the dark tones of the furniture and the serenity of the subject with the violent activity on the print that is exhibited above her head.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15443/the-repose-by-manet/|title=The Repose by Manet|website=World History Encyclopedia}}</ref>
The painting is a portrait of the artist [[Berthe Morisot]], a regular model, who married Manet’s brother, [[Eugène Manet|Eugène]]. She is wearing a white dress as she sits with a fan in her right hand on a red sofa, beneath a then-fashionable Japanese print (in this case ”The Dragon King Pursuing the Ama with the Sacred Jewel” by [[Utagawa Kuniyoshi]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ives |first1=Colta Feller |title=The Great Wave: The Influence Of Japanese Woodcuts On French Prints |date=1979 |publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |isbn=0-87099-098-5 |page=25 |edition=Fourth printing |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/the-great-wave-the-influence-of-japanese-woodcuts-on-french-prints |access-date=1 June 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/the-great-wave.-the-influence-of-japanese-woodcuts-on-french-prints.-met./ |archive-date=4 March 2023 |url-status=live |language=en}}</ref> Her gaze seems meditative and absent. There is a striking contrast between the light tone of her dress and the dark tones of the furniture and the serenity of the subject with the violent activity on the print that is exhibited above her head.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15443/the-repose-by-manet/|title=The Repose by Manet|website=World History Encyclopedia}}</ref>
Manet himself described the work as a study in physical and psychological repose — “not at all in the character of a portrait.”
Manet himself described the work as a study in physical and psychological repose — “not at all in the character of a portrait.”
c. 1871 painting by Édouard Manet
Repose (French: Le Repos, ‘Rest’) is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Édouard Manet, from c. 1871. It is held in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, in Providence.[1]
The painting is a portrait of the artist Berthe Morisot, a regular model, who married Manet’s brother, Eugène in 1874. She is wearing a white dress as she sits with a fan in her right hand on a red sofa, beneath a then-fashionable Japanese print (in this case The Dragon King Pursuing the Ama with the Sacred Jewel by Utagawa Kuniyoshi).[2] Her gaze seems meditative and absent. There is a striking contrast between the light tone of her dress and the dark tones of the furniture and the serenity of the subject with the violent activity on the print that is exhibited above her head.[3]
Manet himself described the work as a study in physical and psychological repose — “not at all in the character of a portrait.”
