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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 ]
Édouard Manet (UK: / ˈ m æ n eɪ /, US: / m æ ˈ n eɪ, m ə ˈ-/; [1] [2] French: [edwaʁ manɛ]; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
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]
April 28 – Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (born 1811) [10] June 15 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassical historical painter (born 1779) [11] June 20 – Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (born 1778) [12] August 22 – Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (born 1803) September 21 – Antoine Maurin, French lithographer (born 1793)
The central figure in the middle of the painting is the Spanish singer Lorenzo Pagans, sitting frontally opposite the viewer, with Auguste de Gas, Edgar Degas' father, seated behind him on the right. Both men are wearing a dark suit, dark shoes, and a white shirt. Pagans is also wearing a dark tie and a boutonnière on his left lapel. He is ...
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.
Boy Carrying a Sword is an 1861 oil painting by the French artist Édouard Manet and is now displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The work depicts a small boy costumed as a page of the Spanish court of the seventeenth century; he is holding a full-sized sword and sword belt.
Maria Malibran as Desdemona is an 1830 portrait painting by the Belgian artist Henri Decaisne depicting the Spanish singer Maria Malibran. [1] Malibran is depicted in the role of Desdemona from Gioachino Rossini 's opera Otello , itself based on William Shakespeare 's play of the same title .