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ÉDOUARD MANET Le Guitarrero (ou Le Chanteur Espagnol).
Etching and roulette on cream laid paper, 1861-62. 298x245 mm; 11¾x9⅝ inches, full margins. Fifth state (of 6), with the additional vertical lines upper right but before the printer's name, or with the printer's name masked out, lower right. Published by Cadart, Paris. A superb, richly-inked and early impression with strong contrasts.
Based on Manet's (1832-1883) same-titled oil painting, 1861, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. When first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1861, it heralded the artist's first major critical success, and prompted this etched version of the subject. Guérin 16; Harris 12.
