Exotic Flower (Woman in a Mantilla)
Édouard Manet
1868
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint in brown on ivory chine, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
- Dimensions
- Image: 16.2 × 10.6 cm (6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Plate/primary support: 17.4 × 11.6 cm (6 7/8 × 4 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 38.7 × 27.4 cm (15 1/4 × 10 13/16 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.
