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A Negress

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posed on a stage. She is viewed from below, tightly framed against a plain light background, looking back over the head of the viewer, with an uncomfortable expression: perhaps self-conscious or embarrassed. The paint is applied thinly but the work is highly finished, in
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The painting was exhibited in Paris and in London in 1888, and was probably brought to Poland after the artist's death in 1893 by her husband, the doctor Antoni Bohdanowicz. It was acquired by the Polish art collector
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half-length portrait of a black woman, shown from waist up dressed in a white robe which has slipped off one shoulder, exposing the left breast. She is wearing a gold necklace, gold
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was popular in the late nineteenth century. The canvas is prominently signed and dated in the upper right corner, "Anna Bilińska /
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and remained missing until it appeared at auction in 2011 and was returned to the museum in 2012.
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before 1916. He deposited the canvas with the rest of his collection at the
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in 1933. In 1939, the painting was purchased by the National Museum for 700
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in Germany. It was purchased for Poland thanks to the effort of the Polish
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63 cm × 48.8 cm (25 in × 19.2 in)
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For the bronze sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, see
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Index

The Negress
La Négresse (Manet)

Anna Bilińska
Oil on canvas
National Museum
Warsaw
Polish
Murzynka
oil painting
Anna Bilińska
National Museum
World War II
Paris
Tony Robert-Fleury
Académie Julian
Portrait of Madeleine
Marie-Guillemine Benoist
realist
hoop earrings
life model
academic
exotic person
Dominik Witke-Jeżewski
pl
National Museum in Warsaw
zlotys
Villa Grisebach
de
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

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