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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]
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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.
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 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 ]
Victorine-Louise Meurent was born in Paris on Sunday, February 18, 1844, [1] to a family of artisans. Her mother was a milliner and her father was a patinator of bronzes. In 1860, at the age of sixteen, Meurent began modeling in the studio of Thomas Couture and she may have studied art at his atelier for women.
Victorine was also painted in Le Bain and Olympia, two other paintings by Manet. [5] According to a biography written by Margaret Seibert, Manet picked different types of models to fit the characters of the paintings he wanted to pursue. In this case, Victorine was chosen by Manet for the guitar singer as she is also a girl of "easy virtue." [6]
The work is an early example of Manet's painterly style, inspired by Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez, and it is a harbinger of his lifelong interest in the subject of leisure. The painting influenced Manet's contemporaries – such as Monet, Renoir and Bazille – to paint similar large groups of people.