mulher com papagaio

a mulher que serviu de modelo a esta mulher com papagaio de Manet foi Victorine Meurent. (quem ensina quem a falar)

Victorine foi a modelo preferida de Manet, mas também de outros artistas da época.

ela própria pintava, entrou na Academia das Artes e exibiu as suas obras várias vezes em Paris. no entanto, apenas uma obra sobreviveu até hoje: Palm Sunday.

"A self-portrait of Victorine was shown at the Salon in 1876, a year in which Manet failed to get any of his work accepted. She made the show again in 1879, a remarkable achievement given the competition; and this time her work was hung in the same room as Manet’s, an irony that he cannot have failed to notice.

Victorine exhibited at the Salon again in 1885 and 1904, and in 1903 she was elected a member of the prestigious Sociétés des Artistes Français. Palm Sunday survives in a small suburban gallery while Manet’s work, by contrast, swaggers on the walls of some of the most prestigious galleries around the world.

Manet and Victorine appear to have lost touch in the 1870s, perhaps driven apart by their professional rivalry. It would be nice to report that Victorine went on to make a comfortable living out of her art, but the odds were stacked against her, as they were for most working-class women of that period. Instead, she seems to have drifted back into performing and giving music lessons as a way of making ends meet." (daqui)