Yale University Press £18  (978-0-300-12613-6)
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Manet’s Boy with Cherries (c.1858) is one of the illustrations in this book. The impoverished boy’s story is tragic: after being taken up by the painter as a model, and then losing Manet’s good opinion, he hanged himself. Alpers’s book sets Velázquez in various contemporary contexts:  war and peace, the studion, Manet, museums.

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