1862, Edouard Manet, Lola de Valence (detail) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Long inspired by Spanish art and culture, Manet here depicted the star of a popular Spanish ballet that found great success in Paris. When the artist first exhibited the painting at the Galerie Martinet in 1863, Lola appeared against a neutral background. He later modified the setting by adding a stage backdrop seen from behind and a glimpse of the audience beyond. Portraying performers suspended between the spheres of public and private, real life and performance, later became a preoccupation of Degas's, which he first explored in Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source," on view nearby.
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1862, Edouard Manet, Lola de Valence (detail) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Long inspired by Spanish art and culture, Manet here depicted the star of a popular Spanish ballet that found great success in Paris. When the artist first exhibited the painting at the Galerie Martinet in 1863, Lola appeared against a neutral background. He later modified the setting by adding a stage backdrop seen from behind and a glimpse of the audience beyond. Portraying performers suspended between the spheres of public and private, real life and performance, later became a preoccupation of Degas's, which he first explored in Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source," on view nearby.
Link to the full painting.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition “Manet/Degas".
Link to other Manet paintings.