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Week 8 Domesticity (1336 – 1340) 3/26– 3/30/2023

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Édouard Manet French 1832-1883

Interior at Arcachon , 1871

Oil on canvas

Manet painted this domestic scene while staying in a seaside town in southwestern France. He never exhibited it, perhaps because its subject was deeply personal. The artist had recently reunited with his family after serving in the National Guard, defending Paris during the Franco-Prussian war. His wife looks up from her writing to enjoy the view, while her son holds what appears to be a cigarette, seemingly lost in thought. The loose, sketchy technique gives the painting an intimate, informal quality.

Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1943

1955.552

From the Placard: The Clark

www.clarkart.edu/

On 17 January Manet was back on the ramparts. “Although I hate being under Military Command…it’s better than being ill,” he told Suzanne. “This evening I amused myself by doing your portrait from a photograph on a little piece of ivory. I long to see you again, my poor Suzanne, I don’t know what to do without you.” By now, the whole country was covered with dead and wounded. People crossed the street on their hands and knees. The Belleville mob, drums beating, marched to the Town Hall of the 20th arrondissement, and pillaged all the food and wine. The leaders of the Left took up position in front of the building, and for the first time the French began firing at one another. Theirs now decided he would have to obtain an armistice , or face civil war.

On 18 January, King Wilhelm of Prussia, surrounded by German princes and generals, was proclaimed German Emperor at the Palace of Versailles. Paris fought bravely on, but not for much longer. Ten days later, after a four-month siege, the capital surrendered. The streets were eerily silent. The government immediately requested an armistice, and three weeks’ truce was allowed for the election of an assembly to negotiate peace terms. “It’s all over,” Manet wrote to Suzanne on 30 January. I’ll come and fetch you as soon as I can and I’m longing for it.”

Sue Roe The Private Lives of the Impressionists Harper Perennial 2007 pg. 46, pg. 83

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