Gipsy with a Cigarette by MANET, Edouard

MANET, Edouard

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

	Gipsy with a Cigarette 1862 Oil on canvas, 92 x 74 cm University Art Museum, Princeton
Manet's Spanish period reached its culmination around 1862. For Manet, the attraction of Gipsy with a Cigarette was not just the costume and pose, but a natural bravado. Gypsy was a thoroughly modern subject: a liberated woman unafraid of taboos, colourful and spontaneous.