This picture shows a women working at a bar serving the upper class, in the backgrounds reflection you can see a man being served by her. The ladies face looks really down and depressing, you can see from the image that the man is the dominant one. you can tell the lady is at a different class to the rest of the people reflecting in the background. She covering up her cleavage with a flower, her top is very low cut compared to the women and men in the upper class, as all there clothes are showing no flesh.
(source: http://www.fabulousmasterpieces.co.uk/page23.htm )
"A barmaid stands in front of a mirror, staring blankly out into the bar of the popular Paris nightclub the Folies-Bergère. In a clever twist, the viewer is put in the position of her customer as we see from the mirror's reflection that she is in fact serving a mysterious, top-hatted gentleman. The barmaid's enigmatic expression is as inscrutable as the Mona Lisa's while Manet's mastery of fast Impressionist-style brushwork makes it a technical masterpiece".
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