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MANET, Edouard: Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Auguste Manet

🖼 Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Auguste Manet, 1860
Oil on canvas
112 × 91 cm
Paris, France

Soft brushwork captures two figures in austere blacks and grays, their poses formal yet emotionally distant. Manet's portrait of his parents pioneered modern portraiture by rejecting sentimentality, establishing psychological intimacy through restraint rather than elaborate detail.

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