karaori
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Manet was one of the first great painters of modern urban life. One day, while walking through the streets of Paris, he saw a woman with a guitar emerging from a modest café. He asked her to pose for him, but she laughed and ran away. Although Street Singer was ultimately created in the studio using a professional model (eighteen-year-old Victorine Meurend), it retains the impact of Manet’s initial experience— including the swiftly brushed glimpse of a petticoat as the woman lifts her skirt, her enigmatic expression, and the blurred impression of an aproned waiter beyond the swinging doors.
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Sennuwy
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Young Woman in a White Hat
Jean Baptiste Greuze
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MFA Boston