This pin features a detail from the work by Edouard Manet (1832-1883), The Fife Player, 1866, musée d'Orsay. Manet, who found in a Spanish manner and subject matter an outlet for his own talent, did not visit Spain and the Prado Museum until 1865. He was particularly impressed by Velasquez's Pablo de Valladolid and told his friend Fantin-Latour: "[It is] the most astonishing piece of painting ever done... the background disappears: it is air which surrounds the fellow, dressed all in black and full of life". When he returned to Paris, Manet applied these principles to a
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