Édouard Manet 1832-1883,The Funeral ca.1897,oil on canvas
Manet's unfinished painting is thought to depict the writer Charles Baudelaire,which took place on September 2nd,1867.The artist,unlike friends who had yet to return from vacation or staying away owing to the threatening summer storm,was among the few mourners present.This view of the meager funeral cortège at the foot of the Butte Mouffetard,a hill in southwest Paris,is framed by the silhouettes and cupolas Val de Grace,the Panthéon,Sainte-Etienne-du-Mont,and the Tour de Clovis in the background.Manet kept the picture until his death.In 1894 Pissarro acquired it in exchange for one of his own landscapes.
Édouard Manet 1832-1883,The Funeral ca.1897,oil on canvas
Manet's unfinished painting is thought to depict the writer Charles Baudelaire,which took place on September 2nd,1867.The artist,unlike friends who had yet to return from vacation or staying away owing to the threatening summer storm,was among the few mourners present.This view of the meager funeral cortège at the foot of the Butte Mouffetard,a hill in southwest Paris,is framed by the silhouettes and cupolas Val de Grace,the Panthéon,Sainte-Etienne-du-Mont,and the Tour de Clovis in the background.Manet kept the picture until his death.In 1894 Pissarro acquired it in exchange for one of his own landscapes.