Gonzalès, Eva (1849-1883)
Jeune Fille aux cerises (Girl with Cherries)
c.1870
Oil on canvas, 56.2 × 47.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The daughter of an affluent and cultured family, Eva Gonzalès was Édouard Manet’s first and only official pupil. Girl with Cherries, which features a freely painted figure lit dramatically against a dark background, shows a clear debt to Manet’s contemporary Spanish-style works. The model wears the frilled linen cap and loose, striped gown of an 18th-century servant girl—an occupation further suggested by her rolled-up sleeve. (CAI)