Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain in The Met Collection API (isPublicDomain).
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About this picture
Boy with a Sword is a public-domain painting by Edouard Manet, dated 1861. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Boy with a Sword” (1861) keeps the scale of an old exhibition picture, but the subject is modern Paris: a café, a street, or someone Manet knew.
About the artist
Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was a French painter who kept the scale of old exhibition pictures but painted modern Paris: cafés, streets, and friends. Younger Impressionists looked to him even though he did not join their shows.
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