The Funeral (painting)

The Funeral (French – L'Enterrement) is an 1867–1870 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

[3] Charles Sterling-Salinger notes that Manet has brought the domes of the Observatoire of the église Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce closer together to improve the composition.

Due to the presence of a horse grenadier of the Imperial Guard at the back of the procession, Henri Loyrette argues that the scene is set before the end of the French Second Empire.

[6] The work was most probably inspired by the funeral of the painter's friend Charles Baudelaire on 2 September 1867, at which Manet had assisted.

[3] The weather was stormy that day, the sky heavy and the cortège small because – according to Charles Asselineau – many people were absent from Paris and could not return in time.