1861, Edouard Manet, Boy with a Sword -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: The model for this painting, Léon-Édouard Koëlla (known as Léon Leenhoff), posed frequently for Manet, appearing in eighteen works. He was the son of Suzanne Leenhoff, who married Manet in 1863. Here, the artist dressed him in a seventeenth-century costume, adding a period sword as a prop - a tribute to the great Spanish painters he admired, notably Velázquez. Critics reviewed the work favorably on the five occasions that Manet exhibited it between 1862 and 1872. When The Met accepted this painting and Young Lady in 1866 as a gift in 1889, they became the first works by Manet to enter a museum collection.
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1861, Edouard Manet, Boy with a Sword -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: The model for this painting, Léon-Édouard Koëlla (known as Léon Leenhoff), posed frequently for Manet, appearing in eighteen works. He was the son of Suzanne Leenhoff, who married Manet in 1863. Here, the artist dressed him in a seventeenth-century costume, adding a period sword as a prop - a tribute to the great Spanish painters he admired, notably Velázquez. Critics reviewed the work favorably on the five occasions that Manet exhibited it between 1862 and 1872. When The Met accepted this painting and Young Lady in 1866 as a gift in 1889, they became the first works by Manet to enter a museum collection.
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