Report: Rediscovered chalk drawing of child attributed to Édouard Manet

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The available account reports that exclusive: Work, whose subject resembles street urchin in masterpiece by artist, chanced upon in private collection A red chalk drawing of a crouching child, spotted in a private Italian collection, has been attributed by an art historian to the French modernist painter Édouard Manet. The report also notes that The child, whose identity has yet to be established, resembles a street urchin in the Manet masterpiece The Old Musician , in which he sought to show the humanity of homeless and marginalised people.

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