Rediscovered Chalk Drawing of a Child Attributed to Manet

A red chalk drawing depicting a crouching child, found in a private collection in Italy, has been attributed to French modernist painter Édouard Manet by an art historian, according to the Guardian.

The child's identity has not been established, but the figure reportedly resembles a street urchin depicted in Manet's known work The Old Musician, a painting in which the artist sought to portray the humanity of homeless and marginalized people.

The drawing's rediscovery in a private collection adds to the body of known works attributed to Manet, though further scholarly verification details were not included in the available report.

Attribution of previously unidentified works to major artists typically involves stylistic analysis and comparison with an artist's documented body of work.