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MANET, Edouard: Portrait of Théodore Duret

🖼 Portrait of Théodore Duret, 1867
Oil on canvas
47 × 35 cm
Avignon, France

Soft brushwork captures a gentleman in contemplative pose, draped in dark cloth against muted tones. Manet's portrait revolutionized French painting by rejecting academic formality, establishing modern portraiture through psychological immediacy and painterly freedom.

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