Boy with a Sword, 1861, Oil on canvas, 51 5/8 x 36 3/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Édouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883

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Boy with a Sword, 1861, Oil on canvas, 51 5/8 x 36 3/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Édouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris), Manet’s stepson, Léon Koëlla-Leenhoff, recalled that he had posed for this picture in 1861, when he was about ten years old. Manet dressed him in a seventeenth-century costume, adding a period sword as a prop—a tribute to the great Spanish painters he admired, notably Velázquez

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