Manet continued to use Meurent as a model until the early 1870s, when she began taking art classes and they became estranged, as she was drawn to the more academic style of painting that Manet opposed. The last Manet painting in which Meurent appears is "Gare Saint-Lazare" (not to be confused with Monet's painting of the same name), painted in 1873, which is often referred to as "The Railway". The painting is considered the best example of Manet's use of contemporary subject matter.