Portrait of a Woman with a Black Fichu

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Portrait of a Woman with a Black Fichu, c. 1878. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 62.2 × 51.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism

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Museum title: Portrait of a Woman with a Black Fichu
Artist: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
Date: c. 1878
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 62.2 × 51.2 cm (24 1/2 × 20 1/8 in.); Framed: 83.8 × 72.7 × 10.8 cm (33 × 28 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1832–1883

Impressionism c. 1860–1900

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.