64 Edouard Manet, The Guitar Player, c.1866, oil on canvas, 63.5 ×...

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TitleThe Guitar Player

Creator nameManet, Edouard

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1866

Object typePainting

Materialsoil on canvas

Dimensions63.5 × 80 cm

LocationHill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsWomen musicians in artArtists' modelsArt, French--19th century

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3. The Space of Olympia

Nancy Locke

Manet and the Family Romance

IN LES COMPLEXES FAMILIAUX, which Lacan wrote as an encyclopedia article, he describes the act of desiring as an act of identification with one who already has the desire and suggests that in the process of this identification, the original...

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Nancy Locke

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.88-113

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00272.004

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Chapter subject tags:Artists--Family relationshipsManet, Édouard, 1832-1883. OlympiaMeurent, VictorineWomen--Sexual behaviorPsychoanalysis

6. Mlle V. . . . In the Costume of . . . : Painting and Exhibiting Victorine between 1862 and 1868

Carol Armstrong

Manet Manette

~Manet probably painted Victorine Meurent for the first time in 1862. The earliest painting of her, which he never exhibited, was arguably the only time he painted her as “herself” (fig. 63). Of the large-scale, full-length paintings in which she later figured, some represented her in modern...

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Carol Armstrong

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.135-172

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00080.009

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Chapter subject tags:Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883Meurent, VictorinePainting, French--19th centuryPainting, French--Spanish influencesPortrait painting, French--19th centuryNude in art--France--19th centuryWomen and gender--France--19th century

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