thegetty: So many flowers! Édouard Manet’s painting Spring has…
So many flowers!
Édouard Manet’s painting Spring has just joined the collection of the Getty Museum. Packed with dozens of colorful blooms, it depicts demi-mondaine Jeanne de Marsy, who modeled for Manet as well as Renoir.
Jeanne was “beautiful, dainty, smartly dressed, shameless and impudent, a butterfly of the boulevards,” in the words of 19th-century art critic Adolphe Tabarant. And what a nose!
She goes on view this winter at the Getty Center. #SpringinWinter
Spring (Le Printemps), 1881, Édouard Manet. Oil on canvas, 29 x 20 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum
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