Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet
1866
A Young Lady in 1866 or Lady with a Parrot is an 1866 painting by Édouard Manet, showing his favourite model, Victorine Meurent, wearing a long pink peignoir, holding a small bouquet of violets, and accompanied by an African grey parrot. It is an oil painting on canvas measuring 185.1 x 128.6 cm, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It and Boy Carrying a Sword (also in the Met) were the first of Manet's works to enter a gallery collection.
It was first exhibited in the May 1867 exhibition of his works on the Avenue de l'Alma (now the Avenue George-V) in Paris as catalogue number 15, with the title Jeune dame en 1866.
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