This painting of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris was Manet's first major work depicting modern city life. The band is playing and a fashionable crowd has gathered to listen. The picture includes portraits of Manet's friends and family. These include Manet himself as well as: Baudelaire, poet (1821–1867), Théophile Gautier, poet and novelist (1811–1872), Ignace Fantin-Latour, flower-painter (1836–1904), Jacques Offenbach, composer (1819-1880), and Eugène Manet, the artist's brother (1833–1892).
[Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 118.1 cm]
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