The Brioche

The Brioche
Artist	Édouard Manet
Year	1870
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	65.1 cm × 81 cm (25.6 in × 32 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession	1991.287

The Brioche is a painting completed in 1870 by French artist Édouard Manet. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts a brioche loaf resting on a table. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

Manet was inspired to paint it after a painting of a brioche by 18th-century artist Jean Siméon Chardin was donated to the Louvre in Paris. In Manet's work the brioche is accompanied by peaches and plums. It is singular among Manet's still lifes for its formality, and mark the last time he would paint such an elaborate tabletop composition.[2]

La Brioche by Chardin, 1763, Louvre

See also

• List of paintings by Édouard Manet
• 1870 in art

References

1. "The Brioche,1870". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
2. Mauner, G. L., & Loyrette, H. Manet: The Still-life Paintings. New York: H.N. Abrams in association with the American Federation of Arts, 2000. p. 43. ISBN 0-8109-4391-3.