Impressionism · France

Eva Gonzalès

1849–1883 · Manet's only formal student, and his sharpest reader

ImpressionismPastelPortraitureFlat blacks

The short version

Gonzalès absorbed Manet's flat blacks and cool greys, then applied them to pastel and to sitters caught between poses. She died at 34, days after childbirth.

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