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| Edgar Degas 1864-65 Edouard Manet, Bust-Length Portrait etching, drypoint, and aquatint on laid paper 13 x 10.5 cm ( plate ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
This is part 2 of a 9 – part post on the works of Édouard Manet. For full biographical notes, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.
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| 1862 The Balloon lithograph in black on laid paper 40.3 x 50.8 cm ( image ) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1862 The Gypsies etching on blue laid paper 30.5 x 23.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1862 The Old Musician oil on canvas 187.4 x 248.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1862 The Toilette etching in black on ivory laid China paper 28.5 x 22.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1862 Young Woman Reclining oil on canvas 93.98 x 113 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| 1862-63 Don Mariano Camprubi etching on blue laid paper from 1905 Strölin edition 29.8 x 19.7 cm ( plate ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1862-63c Fishing oil on canvas 76.8 x 123.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1862-64 Silentium etching on blue laid paper from 1905 Strölin edition 20.3 x 15.1 cm ( plate ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1862-64 The Infanta Marguerita after Velázquez ( see below ) etching on blue laid paper from 1905 Strölin edition 23.2 x 20.2 cm ( plate ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Velazquez 1654-55 Infanta Margarita oil on canvas 70 x 59 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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| 1862-72c Boy with Pitcher oil on canvas 61.8 x 54.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1862c Gypsy with a Cigarette oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey |
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| 1862c Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's Mistress, Reclining ( Lady with a Fan ) 90 x 113 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary |
1862c Street
Singer
Manet was
inspired by the sight of a woman with a guitar emerging from a sleazy café. She
refused to pose for the picture, so Manet employed his favourite model of the
1860s, Victorine Meurent.
No one embodied
this new aesthetic better than Victorine Meurent – Manet was to paint her nine
times in total, producing two pictures in particular that would shake up the
art world forever. The story goes that Manet spotted the 18 year old musician
hurrying through the streets and decided she would be the ideal subject to
illustrate his new way of seeing the world.
The second time
Victorine sat for Manet, something remarkable happened. In Victorine Meurent (c1862) Manet grants her all the attention that a
more conventional painter might lavish on a society beauty. She is no longer a
generic, anonymous ‘street singer’ but is afforded the honour of being named.
It was though,
Manet’s next painting that projected Victorine into the middle of a public
scandal. Le déjeuner sur l’herbe
(1863) famously shows three people lounging on the grass following what looks
like an excellent picnic of fruit and oysters. In many ways it is a typical
tableau – except for the fact that although the young men are fully clothed,
their female companion is completely naked.
If Le déjeuner sur l’herbe hinted at sexual
activity, Olympia (1863) left nothing
to the imagination. In it, she appears as a courtesan lying on a rumpled
post-coital bed. Leaning towards her is a black maidservant carrying a bouquet
that has arrived from a smitten admirer.
Victorine
Meurent was to feature in several more paintings by Manet.
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| 1862c Street Singer oil on canvas 171.1 x 105.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1862c Victorine Meurent oil on canvas 43 x 44 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| Victorine Meurent, c. 1865 from an album of portraits belonging to Édouard Manet |
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| 1862c Study of a Seated Nude ( La Toilette ) red chalk on buff laid paper 28 x 20 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1863 Le déjeuner sur l'herbe ( Luncheon on the Grass ) oil on canvas 208 x 264.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay |
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| 1863 Lola de Valence etching and aquatint on laid paper 26.4 x 18.1 cm ( plate ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1863 Lola de Valence lithograph in black on light grey wove paper 24.1 x 21.2 cm ( image ) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
1863 Olympia
Manet stated that the composition and inspiration for Olympia had been influenced by similar compositions by Goya and by Titian:
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| 1863 Olympia oil on canvas 130 x 190 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay ) |
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| Titian 1538 Venus of Urbino oil on canvas 119.2 x 165.5 cm Uffizi Gallery, Florence |
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| Francisco de Goya 1797-1800 Maja desnuda oil on canvas 97 x 190 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| 1867 Olympia ( large plate ) etching on blue laid paper from the 1905 Strölin edition 16.8 x 24 cm ( plate ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1867 Olympia ( small plate ) etching in brown ink on laid paper 8.8 x 17.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1864 1864 The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne ink wash and watercolour on wove paper 24.6 x 35.6 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon |
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| 1864 The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne oil on canvas 81.6 x 100 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1864 Battle of the U.S.S. 'Kearsarge' and the C.S.S. 'Alabama' oil on canvas 134 x 127 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1864 Steamboat Leaving Boulogne oil on canvas 73.6 x 92.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1864-68c Sailing Ships and Seagulls oil on canvas 21 x 26 cm Private Collection |
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| 1864 Eel and Red Mullet oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1864 Fish ( Still Life ) oil on canvas 73.4 x 92.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1864 Fruit on a Table oil on canvas 45.1 x 73.3 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1864 Peony Stems and Pruning Shears oil on canvas 56.8 x 46.4 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1864 Still Life: Fruits on a Table oil on canvas 45 x 73.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1864 The Dead Christ with Angels oil on canvas 179.4 x 149.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1866-67 Dead Christ with Angels etching and aquatint in brown-black ink on wove paper 39.4 x 32.7 cm ( plate ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1864 The Races at Longchamp oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1865-72 published 1884 The Races lithograph on chine collé 38.7 x 51.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1864 Vase of Peonies on a Small Pedestal oil on canvas 93 x 70 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1864-65 Peonies oil on canvas 59.4 x 35.2 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1864-65 La Corrida 48 x 108 cm The Frick Collection, New York |
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| 1864-65c The Head of Christ oil on canvas California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco |
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