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The Spanish Singer is an 1860 oil painting on canvas by the French painter Édouard Manet, conserved since 1949 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York.. Composed in Manet's studio, it employed a model and props which were later used for at least one other painting. [1]
Manet's work, which appeared "slightly slapdash" when compared with the meticulous style of so many other Salon paintings, intrigued some young artists and brought new business to his studio. [15] According to one contemporary source, The Spanish Singer, painted in a "strange new fashion[,] caused many painters' eyes to open and their jaws to ...
It is possible that Manet's 1860 painting The Spanish Singer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) was a model for Degas's depiction of Lorenzo Pagans in a double portrait with his father. [7] The musician portrayed by Manet is also shown singing and playing the guitar but in a folkloric setting.
The Spanish Singer: 1860: 147.3 × 114.3 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) Boy Carrying a Sword: 1861: 131.1 × 93.4 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) The Surprised Nymph: 1860 / 1861: 146 × 114 cm: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) Street Singer: 1862: 174 × 118 cm: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Lola of Valencia ...
The Old Musician is an 1862 oil painting on canvas by French painter Édouard Manet, produced during the period when the artist was influenced by Spanish art. The painting also betrays the influence of Gustave Courbet. This work is one of Manet's largest paintings and is now conserved at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. [1]
On a trip to Spain in 1865, Édouard Manet visited the Prado, where the art of Diego Velázquez was a revelation. Upon his return to Paris in 1866, he began work on a new painting, depicting an anonymous regimental fifer of the Spanish army.
Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Manet (1860) by Édouard Manet. Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Manet is an 1860 portrait by Édouard Manet of his parents, Auguste Manet (1797–1862) and Eugénie Désirée Fournier (1811–1895). It was first exhibited at the 1861 Paris Salon alongside The Spanish Singer. [1]
Meurent first modeled for Manet in 1862, for his painting The Street Singer. [3] She was particularly noticeable for her petite stature that earned her the nickname La Crevette (The Shrimp), [4] and for her red hair, which is depicted as very bright in Manet's watercolor copy of Olympia. Meurent played the violin and the guitar. [5]