Édouard Manet - Woman Before a Mirror 1877
Woman Before a Mirror 1877
92x71cm oil/canvas
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
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From Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum:
Manet’s endeavor to capture the flavor of contemporary society extended to portraits of barmaids, street musicians, ragpickers, and other standard Parisian “types” that were favorite subjects of popular illustrated literature. Since the subject of Woman in Evening Dress is unidentified—conjecture that she might be the French actress Suzanne Reichenberg remains purely speculative—it is tempting to view this portrait as Manet’s rendering of one such type: the fashionable Parisian bourgeois woman, complete with Japanese fan.