Figure 19 Edouard Manet (French, 1832-1883). The Balcony, 1868-69. Oil on canvas, 170 X 124.5 cm (67 x 49 in.). Paris, Musee d'Orsay, RF 2772. What lay behind Manet's rejection of the conventions of genre paint- Figure 20 ing? For Gastagnary in 1869, it revealed Manet's "feeling for the colored touch Alfred Stevens. The Morning Visit, circa \tache colorante\'; Paul Mantz, the same year, claimed that his concern was sim- 1868. Oil on canvas, size ply with "a combination of colors."37 In 1868, Mantz, reviewing Manet's Woman and present whereabouts unknown. Sold Brussels, with a Parrot (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art), saw the "symphonic Galerie Royale, 17 December 1923, lot 51. dialogue" between the pinks of the woman's dress and flesh as evidence of his Photograph, London, Witt Library, Courtauld "indifference" and "dilettantism," his refusal to be moved and impassioned by Institute of Art. 3i