<em>The Railway</em>, widely known as <em>The Gare Saint-Lazare</em>, was painted in 1873. The setting is the urban landscape of Paris in the late 19th century. Using his favorite model in his last painting of her, a fellow painter, Victorine Meurent, also the model for <em>Olympia</em> and the <em>Luncheon on the Grass</em>, sits before an iron fence holding a sleeping puppy and an open book in her lap.