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The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860
- Artist
- Edouard Manet French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris
- Date
- 1860
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 58 x 45 in. (147.3 x 114.3 cm)
- Where to see it
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of William Church Osborn, 1949 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗
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- The edges Look at what is half cut off at the borders.
- One small detail Choose one tiny thing and stay with it for a while.
- The whole picture again Step back. Has it changed for you?
About Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet 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.
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