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Before you stands one of the most startling images in French painting. Manet painted The Fifer in 1866 — a young military musician suspended against a background pale as silence. No shadows, no horizon.
The Paris Salon rejected it as flat and unfinished, unable to see that Manet was planting the seed of modern art.
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