Hooray, this thread has a new chatter! :D
You've got good reasoning there, the very first Manet I saw was in our history book back in the school. It was Berthe Morisot's portrait and even if it was only a tiny picture next to Van Gogh, it etched to my brains and *checks* yup, it's still there! :D It's so dramatic, despite the fact that the woman in it is smiling a bit and Manet has softened the dark parts with brown.