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Follow the open hand away from the man’s dark coat, then compare it with the other hand resting against the blue clothing.
Manet conceived this figure as a companion to Beggar with Oysters and exhibited them together in 1872 as part of The Philosophers. At a time when Parisian redevelopment pushed poorer residents outward, he gave a socially marginal figure the space and attention of a full-length portrait.
Oil on canvas · 187.7 × 109.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Realism
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- Museum title
- Beggar with a Duffle Coat (Philosopher)
- Artist
- Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
- Date
- 1865–67
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 187.7 × 109.9 cm (73 7/8 × 43 1/4 in.); Framed: 222.6 × 145.1 × 17.5 cm (87 5/8 × 57 1/8 × 6 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- A. A. Munger Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.