MANET, Edouard
 
Limited edition and numbered lithograph of ‘Nana’ (1877). Published for La Femme Dans La Peinture in 1938.
 
Description
 
Numbered 926 from a limited run of 3000. This one being of the 401 to 3000 suite, printed on vellum paper.
Signed to plate only, printed thus.
Image size, 39x28cm; external, 52x46cm.
Presented in a period frame, crown stamped by Parsonage Studio to verso.
Near fine or better condition, bright clean lithograph and without sunning at all.
The work shows a young and beautiful woman who stands before a mirror with two extinguished candles, her face turned to the spectator. Her dress is incomplete; she wears a white chemise, blue corset, silk stockings and high-heeled footwear. The interior suggests that it is a boudoir. Behind the woman is a sofa with two pillows. An elegantly dressed man, sitting on the sofa, can be partly seen on the right of the painting. On the left side, there is a chair, a table and a flowerpot.
Completed in 1877 and it was refused at the Salon of Paris the same year. Manet decided to show his painting in the window of a shop on the Boulevard des Capucines, this is one of Paris’s main streets.