Monk in Prayer by Manet in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Monk in Prayer
1865
Edouard Manet, French, 1832–1883

Dimensions: 146.4 x 115 cm (57 5/8 x 45 1/4 in.)

Medium or Technique: Oil on canvas

Classification: Paintings
Type: Genre - Interior; Figure - Male

Accession Number: 35.67

Manet was a great admirer of seventeenth-century Spanish painting. This work may have been inspired by Zurbarán's "Kneeling Monk," which Manet could have seen at the Louvre. He was also much impressed by the masterful handling of dark and light tones in the work of Velázquez.

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/monk-in-prayer-32500