Manet, Edouard - Nana (detail) - German art Postcard

• Art Postcard

   

• Work of art title: Nana [detail]
• Artist (if known): Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
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• Publisher / Gallery: Buchheim Kunstkarte, Germany
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): n/a
• Size: Modern
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Stock No.: A44

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Nana is a painting by French painter Édouard Manet. It was completed in 1877, and was refused at the Salon of Paris the same year. The work is now at the Kunsthalle Hamburg art museum, in Germany.

The painting shows a young and beautiful woman who stands before a mirror with two extinguished candles, her face turned to the spectator. Her dress is incomplete; she wears a short sleeveless bodice, silk stockings and high heeled shoes. The interior suggests that it is a boudoir. Behind the woman is a sofa with two pillows. An elegantly dressed man, sitting on the sofa, can be partly seen on the right of the painting. On the left side, there is a chair, a table and a flowerpot.

Both the title and the numerous details suggest that the picture represents a high class prostitute and her client. Nana was a popular name in the second half of the 19th century for a woman who was a harlot, and the French word "nana" is still used to describe a frivolous woman. The symbolism used by the painter is ambiguous. The phallic shape of the stick in the man's hands and the presentation of an ibis on the tapestry, considered as an unclean bird in the Bible, are controversial elements. Extinguished candles may suggest a lack of affection and love.

Manet wanted to present the painting at the Salon of Paris, but it was rejected because it was deemed to be contemptuous of the morality of the time. French society was not prepared for such frank depictions of prostitution, and the critics did not see the artistic qualities of the work and concentrated solely on the scene which was represented. One of the defenders of Manet was Émile Zola, who in 1880 published a novel of the same name as ninth volume of Les Rougon-Macquart series. However, there is no clear evidence of mutual inspiration in the choice of the theme and the title, as the book was published three years later. Perhaps Manet found inspiration in L'Assommoir, Zola's previous book, in which the character of Nana appears for the first time.