Street Singer

Street Singer is a c. 1862 oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet depicting a female street musician standing near the entrance to a cabaret.

The painting was inspired by a meeting between the artist and a street singer. Manet asked her to pose for him but she refused, so Manet asked a favorite model, Victorine Meurent, to pose for the work. It is either the first or second of Manet's several large-scale paintings for which Victorine posed. The style of the painting shows the influence of Frans Hals and Spanish masters such as Diego Velázquez.

Street Singer is one of a series of single-figure compositions that Manet painted during the 1860s in which he depicted contemporary "types" at life size, upsetting the convention that such humble genre subjects be painted at a small scale.

The painting was donated to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1966.

摘自英文维基百科「The Street Singer (Manet)」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。