This painting shows a fashionable Parisienne in casual clothes. She is wearing a black dress with an accentuated waistline and a draped bustle, a hat, gloves, a handbag and black lace-up boots. The quality, trimmings and style of the clothes showed the social and economic status of the wearer. The model is the actress Ellen André. But above all, this is a picture of a modern woman, not a portrait of a particular individual. Prominent men and women were traditionally portrayed in full length. Here, a new powerful agent and status symbol is portrayed – the woman as consumer and the woman as commodity.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:%C3%89douard_Manet" class="extiw" title="w:en:Édouard Manet"><span title="French painter (1832-1883)">Édouard Manet</span></a>
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1876
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