1868, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Manet painted this portrait of the writer and critic Émile Zola in recognition of his recent support for the artist in the press. He is surrounded by attributes of his occupation, such as books, a quill pen, inkwell, and his 1867 article praising Manet, which appears as a blue pamphlet propped on his desk. The framed collage of prints on the wall echoes a device that Degas used in his Collector of Prints two years prior. Here, Manet included a photograph of his own work, Olympia-a "masterpiece" worthy of the Louvre, according to Zola-as well as a Japanese woodcut by Utagawa Kuniaki and a print after Diego Velázquez, both of which point to his artistic influences.
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1868, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Manet painted this portrait of the writer and critic Émile Zola in recognition of his recent support for the artist in the press. He is surrounded by attributes of his occupation, such as books, a quill pen, inkwell, and his 1867 article praising Manet, which appears as a blue pamphlet propped on his desk. The framed collage of prints on the wall echoes a device that Degas used in his Collector of Prints two years prior. Here, Manet included a photograph of his own work, Olympia-a "masterpiece" worthy of the Louvre, according to Zola-as well as a Japanese woodcut by Utagawa Kuniaki and a print after Diego Velázquez, both of which point to his artistic influences.
Link to other Manet paintings