Music in the Tuileries by Édouard Manet, 1862
The crowd is apparently packed with people he actually knew — family, writers, musicians, himself tucked in at one edge — put together from sketches made at open-air concerts. Critics at the time complained it looked slapped on rather than finished.
Erisava: Half these faces are barely there. I can't tell if that's the point. What's your take?
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