La Femme Dans La Peinture

Limited edition and numbered lithograph of 'Nana' (1877). Published for La Femme Dans La Peinture in 1938.

Description

Numbered 926 from a limited run of 3000. This one being of the 401 to 3000 suite, printed on vellum paper.

Signed to plate only, printed thus.

Image size, 39x28cm; external, 52x46cm.

Presented in a period frame, crown stamped by Parsonage Studio to verso.

Near fine or better condition, bright clean lithograph and without sunning at all.

The work shows a young and beautiful woman who stands before a mirror with two extinguished candles, her face turned to the spectator. Her dress is incomplete; she wears a white chemise, blue corset, silk stockings and high-heeled footwear. The interior suggests that it is a boudoir. Behind the woman is a sofa with two pillows. An elegantly dressed man, sitting on the sofa, can be partly seen on the right of the painting. On the left side, there is a chair, a table and a flowerpot.

Completed in 1877 and was refused at the Salon of Paris the same year. Manet decided to show his painting it in the window of a shop on the Boulevard des Capucines, one of Paris's main street.

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