Victorine Meurent in the Costume of an "Espada"
Édouard Manet
1862
- Medium
- Etching in black and lavis in warm gray on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 30.5 × 23.8 cm (12 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Plate: 33.8 × 27.8 cm (13 5/16 × 11 in.); Sheet: 52.4 × 35.9 cm (20 11/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Manet based this etching on his own painting of the same year (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) depicting his frequent model, Victorine Meurent, in the costume of an "espada," or toreador. Japanese prints and, above all, the etchings of Goya, have been cited as sources for the composition.
