
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
1882 · Courtauld Gallery, London
Manet worked from a real barmaid named Suzon and put her reflection in the wrong place, which people have been arguing about ever since.
★ 9.1

Manet worked from a real barmaid named Suzon and put her reflection in the wrong place, which people have been arguing about ever since.

Two women with parasols on a clifftop in Normandy, the grass and their dresses going the same direction as the wind.

The swan nips her hand and Leda barely reacts. Cézanne cared about the planes of the body, not the story.