# Beggar with a Duffle Coat (Philosopher), in Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet painted this in 1865–67, aged about 33. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> This painting and Beggar with Oysters were probably conceived as companion pieces. Manet exhibited them together in 1872, along with paintings of an absinthe drinker and a ragpicker, under the collective title Philosophers . Parisian beggars held a particular fascination for Realist artists and writers.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: 1865–67
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 187.7 × 109.9 cm (73 7/8 × 43 1/4 in.); Framed: 222.6 × 145.1 × 17.5 cm (87 5/8 × 57 1/8 × 6 7/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1910.304
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Édouard Manet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edouard-manet), French, 1832–1883

Manet came from a prosperous Parisian family, trained under Thomas Couture and studied the old masters, Velázquez above all. In the 1860s he provoked critics with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia, modern subjects painted in flat, frank colour with little modelling.

16 works in the collection.

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