Painting and Sculpture

A Young Lady in 1866

A Young Lady in 1866 or Lady with a Parrot is an 1866 painting by Édouard Manet, showing his favourite model, Victorine Meurent, wearing a long pink peignoir, holding a small bouquet of violets, and accompanied by an African grey parrot. It is an oil painting on canvas measuring 185.1 x 128.6 cm, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It and Boy Carrying a Sword (also in the Met) were the first of Manet's works to enter a gallery collection. It was first exhibited in the May 1867 exhibition of his works on the Avenue de l'Alma (now the Avenue George-V) in Paris as catalogue number 15, with the title Jeune dame en 1866. At the 1868 Paris Salon, the work's realism and inclusion of a parrot was reminiscent of Gustave Courbet's 1866 Woman with a Parrot (Metropolitan Museum of Art), a nude that had caused a scandal at that year's Salon. Manet's work was similarly criticised, and the public came to nickname it Lady with a Parrot, although it had been exhibited as Lady in Pink, then as A Young Lady or Young Lady in 1866.

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• ▸Galleria Estense
• ▸Isle of Purbeck
• ▸Gurlitt Collection

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