Masked Ball at the Opera House
Masked Ball at the Opera House | |
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Artist | Édouard Manet |
Year | 1873 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 59.0 cm × 72.5 cm (23.2 in × 28.5 in) |
Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
Masked Ball at the Opera House (French - Bal masqué à l'opéra) is a painting by Édouard Manet, produced in spring 1873. It is now in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., to which it was offered by Mrs. H. Havemayer in 1982.[1]
The artist made his preparatory sketches for it from life at an opera house at 12 rue Le Peletier in the 9th arrondissement of Paris - this building was reduced to rubble by a fire later that year. He then produced the painting in his studio on rue d'Amsterdam, to which he had moved shortly before.[2] Its subject is reminiscent of the same artist's Music in the Tuileries (1863) - several of his friends posed for both works in his studio, notably the art collector Hecht and the composer Emmanuel Chabrier for Ball.
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References
- ^ "Masked Ball at the Opera". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
- ^ (in French) Françoise Cachin, Manet : « J'ai fait ce que j'ai vu », Éditions Gallimard/Réunion des Musées nationaux, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard / Arts » (nº 203), Paris 1994 (pages 166 and 116 to 120).