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Édouard Manet

Le Guitarero (The Guitarist)

Maker

Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
Auguste Delâtre (French, 1822-1907), printer

Title

Le Guitarero (The Guitarist)

Year

1861

Medium

  • Etching and aquatint on paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Etching and aquatint on paper

Materials

aquatint

Supports

  • Light weight white Oriental wove paper

Dimensions

Plate/Image: 29.7 x 24.4 cm (11 11/16 x 9 5/8 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

52.074

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Changing Poses
The Artist's Model
Nov 12, 2010 – Jun 06, 2011

Label copy

Édouard Manet’s prints and paintings of Spanish subjects enjoyed wide critical and popular success in the 1860s through their evocation of the work of past artists like Diego Velasquez and through the picturesque charm of foreign customs and attire. Unlike the peasant girl depicted in the Isidore Pils watercolor to the right, however, this young man is not a genuine Spaniard, but a model dressed in this role by Manet. His costume mixes Spanish hat and shoes with a jacket typical of Marseilles and common Parisian pants. Furthermore, his awkward grasp of the guitar is that of a left-handed person holding an instrument strung for a righthanded

musician. Manet likely constructed the entire scene using a local model, adapting the tradition of costume painting as a vehicle for his preferred dark palette and aesthetic goals.

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

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Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
Auguste Delâtre (French, 1822-1907), printer
Le Guitarero (The Guitarist), 1861
Etching and aquatint on paper
Plate/Image: 29.7 x 24.4 cm (11 11/16 x 9 5/8 inches)
Museum Works of Art Fund 52.074

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