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Édouard manet impressionism paintings
1874
A Loge at the Théâtre des Italiens
In 1874, Gonzalès painted A Loge at the Théâtre des Italiens, which she is thought to have submitted to the official Salon that year only to have it rejected.
She reworked the painting, which one scholar claims was "one of the most provocative paintings of its day," and resubmitted it to the Salon jury, who accepted it for the exhibition in 1879 to "a rapturous reception," according to the Musée d'Orsay.
The auditorium of the theater and often the box, which immediately conveys the privilege of the occupant, was a favored theme of the Impressionists; indeed, the same year Gonzalès painted this picture, Renoir painted La Loge (1874), which depicts a very similar scene, although the man and woman in his theater box image are compressed more tightly together in the pictorial space.
The two figures in Gonzalès painting are her sister Jeanne Gonzalès and her sister's husband, the graphic artist, Henri Guérard. There is a pronounced awkw
