Description
Finely dressed and carrying an elegant walking stick, influential French artist Édouard Manet appears before a stark background evocative of his own paintings as well as photographic portraits of the time. Created by his friend Henri Fantin-Latour, this depiction confronted the public perception of Manet as a radical bohemian painter of coarse and confrontational compositions (for an example of this, see his Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers). Fantin-Latour instead portrayed him as the genteel man-about-town he actually was.
Provenance
Inherited by Edouard Manet’s wife, Suzanne Manet, Paris to at least 1889 [lent to Paris, 1889]; possibly Camentron, Paris [acc. to Paris 1983]. Gustave Tempelaere with Allard and Noel, Paris, by 1900; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1900 [Durand-Ruel photo no. 938, stock no. 5666]; sold to the Art Institute, 1905.
Dimensions
117.5 × 90 cm (46 1/4 × 35 7/16 in.)
Movement / Period
Accession No
87467
Official Citations
Curatorial Affinity Stream
Continuing the Universe of Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
Impressionism • France • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries
Continuous Discovery