Manet Week, IV: "The Fifer"

 Prompt: Using only what you have on your desk (or near to hand), re-create Manet's "Fifer"/"Young Flautist", 1866.

The feet please me the most. Can you tell what they are?
The angle of the fife is not quite right, but as I was adjusting it for the nth time, the whole thing fell apart. Luckily I'd already photographed it. Good enough.
Putting this together reminded me of how much fun the Minimalist Manger prompt was, the first Covid Xmas...two years ago now (2020).

This is my fourth Manet re-creation, and I don't particularly like Manet. I like best his paintings where he was inspired by Spanish painters, such as this one and "The Dead Toreador". All that deep black...

There's a power in working with other people--engagement with something you wouldn't have considered on your own.  If Amy S. hadn't chosen Manet's "Picnic on the Grass, Alas", I'd never have looked again at his other paintings.

This is part of the Toys Recreate Painting project. I was going to use a girlette, but as I was looking around on my desk, the Husky utility knife was so reminiscent of the boy I decided to use it instead.
(Also, the girlettes on my desk are tied up in a bundle--they say they are now red and green Christmas decorations.)

Besides "The Fifer", so far I've interpreted "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere" (in process); "The Dead Toreador"; "A Bundle of Asparagus" and "A Sprig of Asparagus".
All, here.