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Boy with Pitcher (La Régalade)  1872

by Edouard Manet

X-radiographs have revealed that this painting is a fragment of Les Gitanes, a large portrait of a gypsy family exhibited by Édouard Manet in 1863 and 1867. Apparently dissatisfied with his complex imitation of Spanish Baroque art, he cut the original painting into three sections and reconceived this portion as an individual work of art. The artist painted out part of the ...
Size: 
61.8 × 54.3 cm (24.3 × 21.4 in)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago