The plum

The plum liqueur or (French: La Prune, English: The Plum or Plum Brandy) is the title of a painting by Édouard Manet. It dates from circa 1877 and shows a young woman at a cafe table. In topic and atmosphere has the cloth some resemblance to the Absinthe drinkster by Edgar Degas from 1876. Today it is on display in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.''



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[hide] *1 version  ==Version[ Edit] == At the end of the nineteenth century the café took an important place in the urban life of Paris in. Artists, philosophers and other Bohemians came there together, drunk and conducted heated discussions. Manet was also an avid singer. In the seventies of the nineteenth century he was often to be found in the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes to thePlace Pigalle, where he other painters such as Degas, Monet and Renoir, but also met Émile Zola and Stéphane Mallarmé. [1]
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At the end of his life painted a number of canvases that the café has Manet as theme, which have A bar at the Folies-Bergère is probably the best known. In the plum choose however, the painter to depict only one visitor. A young girl sitting in front of a marble table, her head on her right hand. Between her fingers lights a cigarette and not lit for her is a plum in brandy, a popular drink in that time. She wears a pink dress with underneath a white blouse with Ruffles; on her head a black hat decorated with silk andlace. It would be able to go to a prostitute here that is waiting for a client, but her neat clothing points previously on a respectable job, such as a salesperson or seamstress.With a dreamy, almost melancholic look tail they to a point outside the painting. Manet brings here loneliness as downside to the bustling city life expressed. [1]  however, the scene much hope fuller than the Absinthe drinkster, where the main characters seem lost forever.

Although it is very well possible that inspired the painter in the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes, he worked the canvas in his Studio further out. According to the Irish writerGeorge Moore possessed Manet there a marble café table. [2]  also the background with the grid does not match the actual situation in the café, like those found on the Absinthe drinkster. If model is often called Ellen Andrée, who also played a part on the canvas of Degas. [3] ==Origin[ Edit] ==
 * 1881: Charles Deudon buys the painting of Manet for 3,500 franc.
 * 1919: sold to the art dealer Paul Rosenberg in Paris.
 * 1927: sold to Arthur Sachs from New York for 500,000 francs. He loved the painting certainly until 1948 in his possession.
 * 1961: sold to Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia by the art trade M Knoedler & co., New York
 * 1971: donated to the National Gallery of Art.