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Children in the Tuileries Gardens
Edouard Manet French
Not on view
This everyday scene of children in a park reflects a shifting tableau of modern Parisian life. The viewer is led into the park by three girls, old enough to go there in a group, who encounter an older girl dressed in black. In contrast to their youth, a solitary man with a long white beard represents old age. Opposite him, a white child is accompanied by a Black nanny, a sign of the city’s changing demographics, which included a burgeoning free Black community. Although loosely sketched in without clear facial features, this figure is Manet’s first representation of Laure, who would later model for the maid in Olympia.
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