Édouard Manet · 1866
The Fifer
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A young military fife-player in a black tunic with brass buttons, white cross-belts, red trousers and a peaked cap plays his fife against a flat, pale grey ground, signed lower right. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Up to 8 × 13.7 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Fifer
Manet painted the boy, a musician of the Imperial Guard sent by commander Lejosne, after visiting the Prado in 1865; the flattened composition recalls Velazquez. The Salon jury rejected it in 1866 and Emile Zola defended Manet in print. It came to the French state with the Camondo bequest in 1911 and has been in the Musée d'Orsay since 1986.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
All Édouard Manet prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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