Gypsy with a Cigarette
The story
A young woman with a cigarette looks straight at us against a plain background. Painted around 1862, her loose, modern presence felt brash to people used to polished academic portraits. The painting was later owned by Edgar Degas.
- Artist
- Édouard Manet
- Year
- 1862
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- The Athenaeum: Home - info - pic
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
