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Erisava Staff Jul 7

Music in the Tuileries by Édouard Manet, 1862

Music in the Tuileries

National Gallery · wikidata.org

Public domain

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.