Édouard Manet « Le modèle au chat noir »

1996

29m

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Overview

Scandal at the 1865 Salon. Édouard Manet shows a pale, naked girl lying indifferently on a divan. "What is this odalisque with a yellow belly, an ignoble model picked up God knows where, who represents Olympia? The crowd gathers as if at the morgue before M. Manet's overripe Olympia..." She is Victorine Meurent, one of the painter's favorite models. She posed for Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, for Woman with a Parrot, just as she would pose ten years later for The Railway. A peaceful body, yet a free and independent woman. The painting is a kind of homage to the traditional studio model who has haunted the desires of painters since the Renaissance. It is also a modernist provocation. The references, the mythological and classical allusions, are put to the service of a contemporary scene made all the more scandalous for its unmistakable evocation of the brothel.

Status: Released

Language: FR

Production Information

Production Companies

Palette Productions

Production Countries

France

Spoken Languages

French

Quick Facts

Release Date	January 1, 1996
Status	Released
Language	FR

Cast

Key Crew

Alain Jaubert

Director

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