In the Winter Garden
by MANET, Edouard, Oil on canvas, 115 x 150 cm
The painting shows Monsieur and Madame Guillemet, Manet’s close friends, who ran a ‘haute couture’ salon in the faubourg Saint-Honor� in Paris. The painter’s customary preference for detached observation, and his aversion to unsubtly narrative content in a picture, were graphically expressed in the silent couple in this painting.