Repose (painting)

Repose (French: Le Repos, 'Rest') is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Édouard Manet, from c. 1871. It is held in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, in Providence.[1]

Repose
Artist	Édouard Manet
Year	1871
Type	Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions	150.2 by 114 centimetres (59.1 in × 44.9 in)
Location	Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

The painting is a portrait of the artist Berthe Morisot, a regular model, who was married to Manet's brother, Eugène. She is waring a white dress as she sits with a fan in her right hand on a red sofa, beneath a then fashionable Japanese print (in this case by Utagawa Kuniyoshi). He gaze seems meditative and absent. There is a striking contrast between the light tone of her dress and the dark tones of the furniture and the serenity of the subject with the violent activity on the print that is exhibited above her head.[2]

Manet himself described the work as a study in physical and psychological repose — “not at all in the character of a portrait.”