Against a hilly landscape and on a patch of dirt, five people wearing tattered clothing gather around a bearded man who holds a violin in his lap in this horizontal painting. Most of them have pale skin. Starting from the left is a barefoot young woman holding a blond baby to her chest. She faces our right, and her chestnut-brown hair hides her profile. She wears a black shirt over a calf-length skirt streaked with slate and aquamarine blue. To the right two young boys face us. The boy on the left of that pair wears a loose white shirt tucked into tan-colored pants and an upturned…
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The Old Musician

Edouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

1862

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 187.4 x 248.2 cm (73 3/4 x 97 11/16 in.) ; framed: 238.76 x 297.82 cm (94 x 117 1/4 in.) ; framed weight: 275 lb.
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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