About this artwork
Exotic Flower is an original composition, not based on a painting. A model for the etching is found among the Caprichos of Goya; unlike Goya, Manet visually isolated his figure, choosing not to provide a context for it.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Édouard Manet
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Title
- Exotic Flower (Woman in a Mantilla)
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1868
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Medium
- Etching and aquatint in warm black on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 16.2 × 10.6 cm (6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Plate: 17.5 × 11.6 cm (6 15/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Sheet: 35.3 × 25.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Charles Deering Collection
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Reference Number
- 1927.4207
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/46782/manifest.json