Discover Manet & Eva Gonzales general art Mother and Child and Painting

Mother and Child and Painting of a Woman

the record of countless hours of conversations with Scully’s friend

However much his avowed aim was to simplify both himself and his art

a work of art in its own right

Discover Manet & Eva Gonzales general art Mother and Child and PaintingThe extraordinary story behind Manets portrait of his only pupil Eva Gonzals, placed within the broader context of women painters of the period Edouard Manet (18321883) only ever had one formal pupil, Eva Gonzals (18491883). The daughter of a prominent writer, she entered Manets studio aged 19. He portrayed her the year they met and exhibited the ambitious full length portrait at the Paris Salon of 1870, at which Gonzals also displayed her own work,