Boy with a Sword, 1861, Oil on canvas, 51 5/8 x 36 3/4 in. (131.1 x 93.4 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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Boy, Sword, 1861, Oil, canvas, 51 5/8 x 36 3/4, 131.1 93.4 cm, Paintings, Édouard Manet, French, Paris, 1832–1883, Manet, stepson, Lé Koëlla-Leenhoff, recalled, posed, picture, ten years, old, Manet dressed, seventeenth-century costume, adding, period sword, prop— tribute, great Spanish, painters, admired, notably Velázquez
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