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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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The Gypsies, 1 September 1862
Édouard Manet
French, 1832
- 1883
etching on laid paper
Printed by Auguste Delâtre
46.5 x 30.7 cm irregular; plate: 31.8 x 23.7 cm
Purchased 1931
National Gallery of Canada (no. 3967)
Among his earliest prints, "The Gypsies" serves as the only record of a painting that Manet later cut into fragments. The background figure of a boy drinking from a pitcher is quoted from the Spanish baroque painter Velázquez. Gypsies were a common sight in nineteenth-century Paris, and thus Manet merges artistic tradition with modern life in this image.
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