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In The Conservatory by Manet should be changed to "Cigar in the Hand."

The cigar in question is held by Jules Guillemets and the lady he is pointing the cigar at is his wife and business partner, Jeanne-Julie. They owned a clothing boutique and definitely dressed the part.

Monet was friends with the Guillemets and once said of Jeanne-Julie that her "stockinged legs" and "fashionable shoes" gave him "thoughts of sweet nonsense."

This piece was purchased by painter, opera singer, writer, composer and avid art collector, Jean Loius Fauré. It was one 67 works he owned by Manet. He also owned 62 Monets, so in total he owned 129 paintings by artists whose names start with "M" and end with "net."

The canvas was plundered by the Nazis and later found hidden in a salt mine in Germany stashed with other stolen art objects. The United States National archives have a photo of American soldiers standing next to the newly recovered painting seasoned with a pinch of salt.

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In the Conservatory (French: Dans la serre) is an 1879 oil painting by Édouard Manet in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, depicting Manet's friends, a couple, in a conservatory. There is an ambiguity in the painting that has led art critics to characterize the couple's relationship in divergent ways.

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