Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)
Le Bon Bock (The Good Bock)
1873
Oil on canvas, 94.6 × 83.3 cm
Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Bock is a dark, rich beer made in the spring. This vivid depiction of a drinker recalls the animated portraits by seventeenth-century Dutch masters like Frans Hals that Manet greatly admired. (PhAM)