manet rue mosnier flags Dimensions (inches):53 x 65" The work depicts a woman

The work depicts a woman dressed in white reading a book in front of the sea

Paul GettyMuseum

intense colors

Lady with an Ermine (c

manet rue mosnier flags Dimensions (inches):53 x 65" The work depicts a womanThe work depicts the landscape the painter himself saw from his apartment on June 30, 1878, a day that had recently been declared a national holiday under the name of "Day of Peace." A period of prosperity followed after tumultuous times in French society. Behind lay the bloody Franco Prussian War and the division of Paris, which had devastated France less than a decade ago. The characters in the painting, rich and poor, and the street adorned with