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1882
Showing 20 works across all media from 1882
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
1882 · Courtauld Gallery, London
Manet worked from a real barmaid named Suzon and put her reflection in the wrong place, which people have been arguing about ever since.
★ 9.1
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
1882 · 850 pages
Trust thyself, Emerson writes, and every heart vibrates to that iron string. The poet Oliver Wendell Holmes called his Harvard address the declaration of independence of American intellectual life.
★ 6.8
The Cliff Walk at Pourville
1882 · Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Two women with parasols on a clifftop in Normandy, the grass and their dresses going the same direction as the wind.
★ 6.6
Leda and the Swan
1882 · The Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Philadelphia
The swan nips her hand and Leda barely reacts. Cézanne cared about the planes of the body, not the story.
★ 4.8
That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.
A Word About America · 1882