A caricature by Bertall gave the main figure a clown nose and crooked smile, while one done in the same month by Cham shaded in the feet and hands to suggest the presence of boots and gloves, making its subject look like a street mime.
A caricature by Bertall gave the main figure a clown nose and crooked smile, while one done in the same month by Cham shaded in the feet and hands to suggest the presence of boots and gloves, making its subject look like a street mime. Its subject was likened to a "female gorilla" by Amedee Cantaloube in the May 1865 issue of Le Grand Journal, while the artist's friend Zacharie Astruc wrote an accompanying poem describing how this controversial painting showed the title woman awakening to find "spring arriving in the arms of a black messenger," the flower-bearing slave to her right. FTP, name this Edouard Manet painting of a nude courtesan.
A caricature by Bertall gave the main figure a clown nose and crooked smile, while one done in the same month by Cham shaded in the feet and hands to suggest the presence of boots and gloves, making its subject look like a street mime.
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