(For Tracy Michele, who always reads them first.)

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

(Metropolitan Museum. Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity exhibit. April 9, 2012, 3 PM) Re. Édouard Manet, a portrait painted by Henri Fantin-Latour; beautiful, reserved palette; clearly delineated forms, simplified and bold; a sense of light and air surrounding a living, breathing figure.

Édouard Manet. Oil on canvas, 1867. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Art Institute of Chicago collection.


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