From 1864 To 1870

    Hidley worked in Poestenkill, New York, as a house painter, a handyman, an artist, and served as sexton of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
    He painted a series of townscapes of Poestenkill and the surrounding villages, applying an aerial view and incorporating clearly defined, recognizable buildings in his compositions.
    Here, the aforementioned church, next to which Hindley lived, is the most prominent structure.
   Poesten Kill - "kill," from the Dutch, means "creek" - can be seen both in the left foreground, where it passes under a bridge, and in the far distance, where it spills over a dam
   The town was an important lumbering center, and many mills were located along the creek

The Funeral

    Manet's unfinished painting is thought to depict the funeral of the writer Charles Baudelaire, which took place on September 2, 1867.
    The artist, unlike other friends who had yet to return from vacation or stayed away owing to the threatening summer storm, was among the few mourners present.
    This view of the meager funeral cortège at the foot of the Butte Mouffetard, a hill in southwest Paris, is framed by the silhouettes of the towers and cupolas of the Val de Grâce, the Panthéon, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, and the Tour de Clovis in the background.

The Dead Christ with Angels

    Manet identified the source for this painting, the first of several religious scenes, in the inscription on the rock:the Gospel according to Saint John.
    However, in the passage cited, Christ's tomb is empty except for two angels.
    After Manet sent the canvas to the 1864 Salon, he realized that he had made an even greater departure from the text, depicting Christ's wound on the wrong side.
    Despite Charles Baudelaire's warning that he would "give the malicious something to laugh at," the artist did not correct his mistake.