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MANET, Edouard: Portrait of Madame Jules Guillemet

🖼 Portrait of Madame Jules Guillemet, c. 1880
Black chalk on paper
313 × 220 cm
St. Petersburg, Russia

Soft brushwork captures an elegant woman in profile, her dark dress dissolving into shadowy background while her face glows with subtle modeling. Manet's late portrait exemplifies his revolutionary approach to society portraiture, rejecting formal poses for intimate psychological presence.

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E. H. Gombrich
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