A Young Lady in 1866

A Young Lady in 1866 or Lady with a Parrot is an 1866 painting by Édouard Manet, showing his favourite model, Victorine Meurent, wearing a long pink peignoir,[1] holding a small bouquet of violets, and accompanied by an African grey parrot.

It is an oil painting on canvas measuring 185.1 x 128.6 cm, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

He in turn sold it on to the textile magnate, art collector and friend of Claude Monet Ernest Hoschedé five years later for 2,000 or 2,500 francs.

Davis in turn sold it as Feeding the Parrot through the dealer John Ortgies in a sale on 19 and 20 March 1889 in New York[4] and bought it back for $1,350.

It was donated the Metropolitan Museum, together with Manet's Boy Carrying a Sword and Jules Bastien-Lepage's Joan of Arc, by Erwin Davis in a letter to the president of its paintings committee on 21 March 1889.