Édouard Manet
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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.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC BY 4.0
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- Maker
- Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
- Date
- 1867
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 117.5 × 90 cm (46 1/4 × 35 7/16 in.); Framed: 143.6 × 115 × 11.5 cm (56 1/2 × 45 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · On view · Gallery 225
- Credit line
- Stickney Fund
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
