Still thinking about Olympia's maid

• Autores: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 97, Nº 4, 2015, págs. 430-451
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The black woman in Manet's "Olympia" (1863) has often been overlooked. So, too, has the model Laure who posed for this painting and others. Manet's painting makes visible France's long reliance on slavery in the Caribbean, but also its Revolutionary redefinition of all blacks as paid workers after the second abolition of slavery in 1848. How does thinking about the entry of blacks, specifically black women, into France's economy of wage labor differently illuminate Manet's painting?