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Edgar Degas / Mr. and Mrs. Édouard Manet

Mr. and Mrs. Édouard Manet

1868 · Oil on canvas

LocationKitakyushu, Japan
Genredouble portrait
Dimensions65 × 71 cm

Why it matters

Manet lounges on a sofa listening to his wife Suzanne play the piano. Unhappy with how Suzanne's face was painted, Manet cut off the right-hand strip of the canvas.

Did you know?

  • It was painted around 1868.
  • It measures 65 × 71 cm.
  • It is in the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art.

Based on the German Wikipedia article Monsieur und Madame Manet (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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