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| Keywords: Édouard Manet - Gitane avec une cigarette.jpg Artwork Creator Édouard Manet Catalogue Entry This painting found in Manet �s studio after his death was never exhibited and no indication of its original title has been discovered Purchased by Edgar Degas it was listed in early sales as Indian Woman or Mexican Woman The gypsy designation appeared relatively late but has been accepted Though a date in the 1860s is traditional � � �based on comparisons with Spanish dancers whom Manet saw perform at the Paris Hippodrome in 1862 � � �Juliet Wilson-Bareau recently suggested that the composition is closer to works from the 1870s Spanish culture and painting fascinated Manet and the loose expressive brushwork of Velázquez and Goya heavily influenced him The subject and identity of the model are perhaps less critical for the interpretation than the way in which the artist presents this exotic other who transgresses the norms associated with respectable French women of the era Dark skin and tousled black hair mark her as an outsider as does the bold frontal pose With one hand on her hip and a cigarette dangling from her lips she exudes audacious self-confidence Her gaze into the distance lends a thoughtful even contemplative air Manet �s composition is equally daring It includes passages that are difficult to read and optical inconsistencies like the form on which the woman leans Objects are cropped at unusual places � � �the horse �s head is cut off behind the ear Manet seems to have considered the canvas unfinished and it is difficult to know how he would have completed it Gypsy with a Cigarette thus remains a tantalizing work one of Manet �s most enigmatic images of a daydreaming woman Gallery Label Manet first became interested in gypsies in the early 1860s Here he presents his anonymous sitter as an exotic other who transgresses the norms associated with respectable French women �and polite society in general �of his time The woman �s dark skin and tousled black hair mark her as an outsider as does her bold frontal pose With her left hand on her hip her head leaning casually against her right hand and a cigarette dangling from her lips she exudes audacious self-confidence while her gaze into the distance lends the work a thoughtful even contemplative air Subjects such as this gave artists a freedom denied them in commissioned works Oil on canvas cm 92 73 5 <br> frame Size cm 115 4 97 8 7 7 Princeton University Art Museum exhibition history The Private Collection of Edgar Degas The Metropolitan Museum of Art 22 Sep 1997 � 11 Jan 1998 object history credit line Bequest of Archibald S Alexander Class of 1928 accession number y1979-55 cite book Steward James Christen Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections Revised and Expanded Edition 2013 Princeton University Art Museum Princeton NJ 978-0943012414 2nd 214 cite web Gypsy with a Cigarette y1979-55 http //artmuseum princeton edu/collections/objects/32381 Princeton University Art Museum Édouard Manet - Gypsy with a Cigarette - Google Art Project jpg PD-old-100 1883 Q19965872 PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT Manet Edouard Gypsy with a Cigarette; Princeton University Art Museum Portrait paintings by Édouard Manet European Portraits in the Princeton University Art Museum 1870 19th-century portrait paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1870 Paintings by Édouard Manet in the Princeton University Art Museum 1870 19th-century portrait paintings of unidentified women 1862 oil on canvas paintings in the United States 1862 portrait paintings from France 19th-century oil portraits of sitting women at half length 19th-century portrait paintings in the United States 19th-century portrait paintings with horses Left hand on hip in portrait paintings Gitanos in art Necklines in art Portraits with cigarette or cigar Smoking women in art Portrait paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum Temporary for Cat-a-lot - Female humans Hand gestures in art Hands on head Gypsy with a Cigarette Manet | ||||
