The Plum Brandy

This painting depicts an unconventional young woman on the background of a fashionable caf�.

This picture belongs to Manet’s “Naturalist” series of paintings. He depicts a prostitute, lost in melancholy daydreams. She neither lights her cigarette nor touches her brandy-soaked plum. This painting was the first of Manet’s many caf� scenes, which followed by At the Caf�, the Corner of a Caf�-Concert, and his absolute masterpiece, the Bar in the Folies-Berg�re.