The Old Musician
| The Old Musician | |
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| Artist | Édouard Manet |
| Year | 1862 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 187.4 cm × 248.3 cm (73.8 in × 97.8 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
The Old Musician is an 1862 oil painting on canvas by
Washington, DC.[1]
Description
The painting is composed of seven characters in a landscape. The old musician in the center who is preparing to play the
The painting contains a series of allusions: the man in the top hat is the same character as Pierrot.[5]
See also
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Old Musician.
- ^ "Collection - The Old Musician". nga.cov. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ a b c d "The Old Musician, 1862 by Edouard Manet". manet.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ "Édouard Manet, les premières œuvres" (in French). Van Gogh. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
- ^ "Édouard Manet (artist), French, 1832 - 1883, The Old Musician, 1862". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
- ^ Blake & Frascina 1993, pp. 88, 91, pl. 67, 81.
Bibliography
- Blake, Nigel & Frascina, Francis (1993). "Modern Practices of Art and Modernity". Modernity and Modernism : French Painting in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05514-5 – via the Internet Archive.
- Fried, Michael (1996). Manet's Modernism, or The Face of Painting in the 1860s. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-26217-0.
