USA / Germany: US soldiers display Edouard Manet's masterpiece 'In the Conservatory' (1879) removed by the Nazis and concealed in the Merkers salt mine, 15 April, 1945. The painting is now in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

In the Conservatory (French: 'Dans la serre') is an 1879 oil painting by Edouard Manet (1832-1883) in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. The setting is a conservatory at 70 Rue d'Amsterdam in Paris, then owned by painter Otto Rosen and which Manet used as a studio for nine months in 1878 and 1879.

The painting was exhibited in the 1879 Paris Salon and was regarded as surprisingly conservative for Manet. Jules-Antoine Castagnary said it portrayed 'the elegance of fashionable life.'

This photograph shows soldiers in the Merkers salt mine posing with In the Conservatory, after it was brought there to protect it during the war.

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