Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Young Lady in 1866 by Édouard Manet is one of the most quietly provocative works of nineteenth-century French painting. Completed in 1866 and housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this monumental canvas presents a fashionably dressed young woman standing with an air of composed indifference. She holds a small bunch of violets and gazes slightly downward, her attention drawn to a parrot perched on its stand — a detail that lends the composition an air of studied nonchalance rather than conventional portraiture.
Manet masterfully deploys broad, confident brushwork and a restrained palette to capture the textures of the subject's pink dressing gown and the surrounding domestic space. The painting resists easy narrative interpretation, embodying the modern Parisian ideal Manet sought to define throughout his career. Its large format and cropped composition reflect his debt to Spanish masters such as Velázquez, while its subject matter firmly situates the work within the emerging Realist sensibility of the 1860s.
This premium stretched canvas reproduction faithfully renders Manet's subtle tonal contrasts and painterly surface on museum-quality matte canvas. Presented with a 0.75-inch gallery wrap, it arrives ready to hang, bringing the grandeur of a masterwork from the Metropolitan's European Paintings collection into your space.
| Artist | Edouard Manet |
| Year | 1866 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 72 7/8 x 50 5/8 in. (185.1 x 128.6 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Realism |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 20 × 25 cm (8″ × 10″) |
| Medium | 51 × 76 cm (20″ × 30″) |
| Large | 102 × 152 cm (40″ × 60″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
