Le Fifre

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Le Fifre is a famous 1866 painting by Édouard Manet depicting a young military fifer in a strikingly flat, simplified style that anticipates modern art.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oil painting
painting
alternativeTitle The Fifer NERFINISHED
artHistoricalSignificance anticipates modernist flatness
key work in Manet's oeuvre
artist Édouard Manet NERFINISHED
artisticStyle Japanese-influenced composition
flat simplified style
backgroundColor neutral gray
catalogueRaisonnéNumber Wildenstein 67 (approximate reference) NERFINISHED
collection Musée d'Orsay collection NERFINISHED
commissionedBy none
compositionFeature flat background
frontal pose
full-length single figure
countryOfOrigin France
creator Édouard Manet NERFINISHED
depicts Spanish-style military uniform
young military fifer
era 19th-century art
exhibitedAt Salon des Refusés NERFINISHED
firstPublicExhibitionYear 1867 GENERATED
genre portrait painting
height 161 cm
historicalPeriod Second French Empire NERFINISHED
iconography French military musician
inception 1866
influenceOn modern painting
inspiredBy Diego Velázquez NERFINISHED
Spanish court portraiture
languageOfTitle French
locatedIn Paris
location Musée d'Orsay NERFINISHED
mainColor black
red
white
movement Realism
early modern art
owner French state NERFINISHED
previousLocation Jeu de Paume NERFINISHED
Louvre Museum NERFINISHED
reception initially rejected by official Salon
relatedWorkByArtist Luncheon on the Grass NERFINISHED
Olympia NERFINISHED
subjectAge adolescent boy
technique oil on canvas
title Le Fifre NERFINISHED
width 97 cm

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The Fifer title Le Fifre