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Édouard Manet

Portrait of Alphonse Maureau

1878/79
Pastel on canvas, prepared with an off-white ground
54.7 × 45.2 cm (21.5 × 17.8 in)

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One of the earliest portrait pastels executed by Manet, this dashing subject was the painter Alphonse Maureau, an habitue of the cafe La Nouvelle Athenes.

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