A Young Lady in 1866

A Young Lady in 1866 or Lady with a Parakeet is an 1866 painting by Édouard Manet, showing his favourite model Victorine Meurent, wearing a pink gown, holding a small bouquet of violettes 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. It and Boy Carrying a Sword were the first of Manet's works to enter a gallery collection.

It was first exhibited in the May 1867 exhibition of his works on the Avenue de l'Alma in Paris as catalogue number 15, with the title Jeune dame en 1866. At the 1868 Paris Salon, the work's realism and inclusion of a parakeet was reminiscent of Gustave Courbet's 1866 Woman with a Parrot, a nude which had caused a scandal at that year's Salon. Manet's work was similarly criticised and the public came to nickname it Lady with a Parakeet, although it had been exhibited as Lady in Pink, then as A Young Lady or Young Lady in 1866.