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MANET, Edouard: Le Bon Bock (Portrait of Emile Bellot)

🖼 Le Bon Bock (Portrait of Emile Bellot), 1873
Oil on canvas
94 × 83 cm
Philadelphia, USA

Soft brushwork captures a relaxed gentleman with beer and pipe, rendered in warm browns and blacks. Manet's informal portrait challenged academic traditions, celebrating everyday leisure and modern Parisian café culture with unprecedented intimacy.

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