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 That young woman, reading or not, should be shown drinking in public, especially alone, was alarming for contemporary bourgeois values. Always the suspicion lurked, as in the case of The Plum, that the unsavory lone drinker was a prostitute. Manet was challenging the accepted norm. But he was also using pastel on primed canvas, a rather startling procedure, given that canvas vibrates and the fixing of pastel is never an easy matter. |
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