Art, literature & history
Line in Front of the Butcher Shop (Queue devant la boucherie)
1870
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 16.9 × 14.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 13/16 in.) plate: 23.7 × 16 cm (9 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 53 × 35 cm (20 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1950.16.100
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Édouard Manet. Line in Front of the Butcher Shop (Queue devant la boucherie). Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Line in Front of the Butcher Shop (Queue devant la boucherie) — Edouard Manet. 1870.
Medium: etching on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 16.9 × 14.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 13/16 in.) plate: 23.7 × 16 cm (9 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 53 × 35 cm (20 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1950.16.100. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.