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| Artist | Édouard Manet |
| Year | 1861 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The Boy Carrying a Sword is an 1861 painting by the French painter Édouard Manet and now conserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The work shows a boy standing, who seems to be surprised and naive, and who is actually Leon Leenhoff, the step-son of the artist after his marriage with Suzanne in 1862. The boy is disguised as a page of the Spanish court of the seventeenth century ans holds in the hands an enormous sword in its climbing harness. This work was later reproduced as an engraving under the direction of Dijon painter and etcher Alphonse Legros, who collaborated in the work.[1]
According to Émile Zola, the work is typical of the influence of Spanish painters[2] and shows the strong influence of Diego Velázquez and Frans Hals had on Manet at the time.
References
- ^ "Manet Graveur, Oeuvres par ordre chronologique, L'Enfant à l'épée, 1862" (in French). Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ^ Émile Zola (1867). Edouard Manet. Étude biographique et critique (in French). Cahiers naturalistes. Retrieved 24 March 2010.