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7. #4: Goya - Majas on a Balcony

The inspiration for Manet's The Balcony:

The Balcony is an 1868 oil painting by the French painter Édouard Manet and was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1869. The painting depicts four figures. On the left is Berthe Morisot, who became in 1874 the wife of his brother, Eugène. In the centre is the painter Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet. On the right is Fanny Claus, a violist. The fourth figure is the background is possibly Leon Leenhoff, Manet's (step) son.[1] It was sold by Gustave Caillebotte in 1884 and is currently kept at the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris.

[edit] Inspiration and descriptionThe painting, inspired by The Majas at the balcony by Francisco Goya, was created at the same time and with the same purpose as The Lunch in the workshop. The three characters, who were all friends of Manet, seem to be disconnected from each other: while Berthe Morisot, on the left, looks like a romantic and inaccessible heroine, the young violinist Fanny Claus and the painter Antoine Guillemet seem to display indifference. The boy in the background is Manet's son, Léon. Just behind the railings, there are a hydrangea and a dog with a ball.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Balcony_(painting)