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Artist: Édouard Manet (1832–1883)
French painter
Work location: Paris
Title: A Parisian Lady
Object type: Painting
Description: This painting shows a fashionable Parisienne in casual clothes. She is wearing a black dress with an accentuated waistline and a draped bustle, a hat, gloves, a handbag and black lace-up boots. The quality, trimmings and style of the clothes showed the social and economic status of the wearer. The model is the actress Ellen André. But above all, this is a picture of a modern woman, not a portrait of a particular individual. Prominent men and women were traditionally portrayed in full length. Here, a new powerful agent and status symbol is portrayed – the woman as consumer and the woman as commodity.
Date: Unknown date
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Height: 192 cm (75.6 in). Width: 125 cm (49.2 in).
Framed: Height: 227 cm (89.4 in). Width: 160 cm (63 in). Depth: 13 cm (5.1 in).
Inscriptions (Swedish): Signerad: Manet
SKU: 273962
