Oysters is an 1862 oil painting by the French artist Édouard Manet. Armstrong p.270 A still life it depicts a platter of six opened oysters along with a sliced lemon and a jug with butter. Marrinan p.290-91 It was Manet's first still life. Anderson p.246

The painting is now part of the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., having been acquired in 1962. https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46427-oysters

See also List of paintings by Édouard Manet

References

Bibliography Anderson, Maxwell Lincoln. American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001. Armstrong, Carol M. Manet Manette. Yale University Press, 2002. Marrinan, Michael. Gustave Caillebotte: Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887 . Getty Research Institute, 2016.