ÉDOUARD MANET (1832 - 1883)
Boy with Sword, 1861 |
The boy's features
resemble those of Léon-Édouard
Koëlla-Leenhoff (1852 – 1927), the illegitimate
son of Suzanne Leenhoff and – presumably –
Édouard Manet. Painted in 1861, it was shown
for the first time in the exhibition opened on 1st
of March 1863 in the gallery of Louis Martinet in
Paris. The art critic Ernest Chesneau appreciated
its colouring and the expressivity while
Émile Zola pointed to its relation to works
of Spanish painters like Velazquez and Goya. In the
years 1861 and 1862, Manet created several etchings
with this subject.
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