The reading by Manet
Mondays with Edouard Manet!
Dominated by white, the painting shows Manet's "stepson" Léon Leenhoff reading to Manet's wife, Suzanne (Leenhoff). Like Victorine Meurent, here Suzanne is staring right at you -- or is she looking at her husband and wondering what she's gotten herself into.
Dominated by white, the painting shows Manet's "stepson" Léon Leenhoff reading to Manet's wife, Suzanne (Leenhoff). Like Victorine Meurent, here Suzanne is staring right at you -- or is she looking at her husband and wondering what she's gotten herself into.
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| Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1869 |
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