Beggar with a Duffle Coat (Philosopher)  1867

This painting and [i][url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/8969/beggar-with-oysters-philosopher]Beggar with Oysters[/url][/i] were probably conceived as companion pieces. Édouard Manet exhibited them together in 1872, along with paintings of an absinthe drinker and a ragpicker, under the collective title [i]Philosophers[/i]. The beggars of Paris, nonconformist types under th...