Girl with Cherries  1870

The daughter of an affluent and cultured family, Eva Gonzalès was [url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/35577]Édouard Manet’s[/url] first and only official pupil. Girl with Cherries, which features a freely painted figure lit dramatically against a dark background, shows a clear debt to Manet’s contemporary Spanish-style works. The model wears the frilled linen cap and loose,...