Édouard Manet
(1832 - 1883)
(1832 - 1883)
Nana is a painting by French painter Édouard Manet. It was completed in 1877 and was refused at the Salon of Paris the same year. Manet decided to show his painting in the window of a shop on the Boulevard des Capucines, one of Paris’s main streets. The painting gathered attention and crowds during its exhibition, due to Manet's fame in Paris. The work is now at the Kunsthalle Hamburg art museum in Germany.
The painting shows a young and beautiful woman who stands before a mirror with two extinguished candles, her face turned to the spectator. Her dress is incomplete; she wears a white chemise, blue corset, silk stockings and high-heeled footwear. The interior suggests that it is a boudoir. Behind the woman is a sofa with two pillows. An elegantly dressed man, sitting on the sofa, can be partly seen on the right of the painting. On the left side, there is a chair, a table and a flowerpot.
Both the title and the numerous details suggest that the picture represents a high class prostitute and her client. "Nana" was a popular assumed name for female prostitutes during the second half of the 19th century (much like the connotation "Candy" has had for English-speakers more recently). Even today the French word "nana" is used to describe a frivolous woman (or simply "a female" in argot).
The model for the painting was Henriette Hauser, a well-known courtesan of the era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_(Manet)
The painting shows a young and beautiful woman who stands before a mirror with two extinguished candles, her face turned to the spectator. Her dress is incomplete; she wears a white chemise, blue corset, silk stockings and high-heeled footwear. The interior suggests that it is a boudoir. Behind the woman is a sofa with two pillows. An elegantly dressed man, sitting on the sofa, can be partly seen on the right of the painting. On the left side, there is a chair, a table and a flowerpot.
Both the title and the numerous details suggest that the picture represents a high class prostitute and her client. "Nana" was a popular assumed name for female prostitutes during the second half of the 19th century (much like the connotation "Candy" has had for English-speakers more recently). Even today the French word "nana" is used to describe a frivolous woman (or simply "a female" in argot).
The model for the painting was Henriette Hauser, a well-known courtesan of the era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_(Manet)
Nana
1877
Oil on canvas
154 x 115 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
https://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/objekt/HK-2376/nana?term=nana&context=default&position=0
1877
Oil on canvas
154 x 115 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
https://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/objekt/HK-2376/nana?term=nana&context=default&position=0
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