MANET, Edouard
(b. 1832, Paris, d. 1883, Paris)

Spanish Ballet

1862
Oil on canvas, 61 x 91 cm
Phillips Collection, Washington

Manet's "espagnolisme" reached fever pitch in the 1860s, any subject was good so long as it was Spanish. When a Spanish ballet troupe came to Paris, Manet painted the troupe as a whole, some dancers raising their arms in a bashful adumbration of dance.