Introduction
Modern Paris
Artistic Strategies
Context
Gustave Caillebotte, Le Pont de l'Europe, dated 1877.

Manet lived on the Right Bank of the Seine, in the district just north of the Gare Saint-Lazare, called the Batignolles. Here different social classes crossed paths, such as the gentleman in his top hat and frock coat and the worker in his smock.

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