Édouard Manet (not to be confused with the more famous Claude Monet),The Spanish Singer 1860,oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art
This painting which reflects the Parisian vogue for Spanish art and culture during the Second Empire,won Manet his first popular and critical success in his debut at the Salon of 1861.Though the picture was admired for its realistic detail,Manet did not disguise the fact that it was composed in a studio using a model and props.The left-handed singer holds a guitar strung for a right-handed player,and his fingering suggests he was unfamiliar with the instrument.His outfit was fashioned by costumes that Manet kept on hand;several accessories reappear in paintings in this gallery (not shown)
What I find interesting about the painting is the still life at the bottom right.
The painting was so admired at the Salon of 1861 (a government-sponsored exhibition) that it had to be placed in a conspicuous location because of its popularity with Salon-goers.The Spanish Singer,"painted in a strange new fashion"caused many painters' eyes to be opened and jaws to drop-Wikipedia under Édouard Manet:Career
Édouard Manet (not to be confused with the more famous Claude Monet),The Spanish Singer 1860,oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art
This painting which reflects the Parisian vogue for Spanish art and culture during the Second Empire,won Manet his first popular and critical success in his debut at the Salon of 1861.Though the picture was admired for its realistic detail,Manet did not disguise the fact that it was composed in a studio using a model and props.The left-handed singer holds a guitar strung for a right-handed player,and his fingering suggests he was unfamiliar with the instrument.His outfit was fashioned by costumes that Manet kept on hand;several accessories reappear in paintings in this gallery (not shown)
What I find interesting about the painting is the still life at the bottom right.
The painting was so admired at the Salon of 1861 (a government-sponsored exhibition) that it had to be placed in a conspicuous location because of its popularity with Salon-goers.The Spanish Singer,"painted in a strange new fashion"caused many painters' eyes to be opened and jaws to drop-Wikipedia under Édouard Manet:Career