After the Globe Theater tour, we had to walk across the Millenium Bridge and down the Thames walkway to the Courtauld Institute. I felt a little bad because it was windy and rainy and some of the group were older and slower walkers, but this was our path.
For me this was one of the highlights of the entire trip and a painting that I had been waiting to see since 1975. Edouard Manet painted this masterpiece and it was one of his last great works before his all too early death in 1883. The painting is all about Manet's finesse as a painter. The Courtauld Institute had been closed and had moved and on other trips it was not possible for me to see this painting. It was like greeting an old friend.
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