![]() Of the three world’s fairs to be held in Paris later, two were theme expositions decorative arts and colonial possessions and the third, significantly, was called an 'international' exposition. The picture was subsequently purchased by the Friends of the National Gallery. The exposition universelle of 1900 proved to be the last of its kind held in France. For a while it was owned by the prominent Manet collector Auguste Pellerin, before becoming available again on the Parisian market during the First World War, when it was acquired by the Norwegian shipowner Tryggve Sagen. Le pays hôte accueille dautres nations sur son territoire, leur. The painting was sold for a relatively modest sum (as it was unfinished) at the auction following Manet’s death. Une exposition universelle est la vitrine technologique, industrielle et artistique dun pays, ouverte sur le monde entier. Manet chose to abandon the painting while it was still a sketch, as a more urgent event demanded his attention: the execution of the French-backed Emperor Maximilian in Mexico in June 1867. Manet presumably used a number of individual studies when executing the painting, though any such studies seem to be lost now. Exposition universelle (1900 : Paris, France). Rather than presenting a unifying or overarching narrative, the painting illustrates the pulsating, fragmentary diversity of modern life in the city. Official General Catalog / International Universal Exhibition of 1900. Manet’s main interest in this painting, however, was not the world’s exposition itself, and it serves more as a backdrop for the scattered figures and groups of the foreground among these figures we can identify Leon Koella Leenhoff, the son of Mme Manet, as the young boy walking a dog.
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