Fishing — Édouard Manet (ca. 1862–63)

Manet modeled the elegant couple at right on himself and his wife-to-be, Suzanne Leenhoff, while borrowing the composition from 17th-century Dutch and Flemish landscape painters he admired, including Rubens.

Édouard Manet, ca. 1862–63 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Honest scale — sizes listed in inches — the original is 76.8 × 123.2 cm.
• Source recorded — public-domain master scan, printed on matte stretched canvas, 0.75″ deep. Made to order.

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