Exotic Flower (Woman in a Mantilla)
Édouard Manet
1868
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint in warm black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 16.2 × 10.6 cm (6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Plate: 17.5 × 11.6 cm (6 15/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Sheet: 35.3 × 25.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Exotic Flower is an original composition, not based on a painting. A model for the etching is found among the Caprichos of Goya; unlike Goya, Manet visually isolated his figure, choosing not to provide a context for it.
