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Line 23: ==Reception== Historian ~~The great[[Siddharth]]~~ Isabelle Dervaux has described the reception this painting received when it was first exhibited at the official Paris Salon of 1874: "Visitors and critics found its subject baffling, its composition incoherent, and its execution sketchy. [[caricature\|Caricaturists]] ridiculed Manet's picture, in which only a few recognized the symbol of modernity that it has become today".<ref>Adams, Katherine H.; Michael L. Keene. ''After the Vote Was Won: The Later Achievements of Fifteen Suffragists''. McFarland, 2010. p. 37. ISBN 0-7864-4938-1.</ref> The painting is currently in the [[National Gallery of Art]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=43340.0 \|title=Art Object Page \|publisher=Nga.gov \|date= \|accessdate=2013-07-22}}</ref> Shortly after it was completed, the painting was sold to baritone [[Jean-Baptiste Faure]]. It was sold in 1881 for 5,400 francs to the art dealer [[Paul Durand-Ruel]], who gave it several names: " Enfant regardant le chemin fer", "Le pont de l'Europe", "A la Gare St. Lazare", and later just "Gare St. Lazare". It was sold on 31 December 1898 for 100,000 francs to American [[Henry Osborne Havemeyer]]. His wife [[Louisine Havemeyer]] left 2,000 artworks to the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York on her death in 1929, but she divided a small collection, including ''The Railway'', among her three children. The painting was donated to the [[National Gallery of Art]] in Washington, D.C. in 1956 on the death of her son Horace Havemeyer.

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