1874, Edgar Degas, Eugene Manet -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Degas painted this portrait of Manet's younger brother Eugène to mark the occasion of his marriage to Berthe Morisot and offered it to the couple as a wedding gift. It stands out among Degas's portraits for placing the sitter in a landscape. Both the outdoor setting and his reclined posture recall Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863), for which Eugène had similarly posed, holding a walking stick. Degas exhibited this work at the second Impressionist exhibition, in 1876, along with the oil sketch of Eugene's sister-in-law, Yves Gobillard, also on view in this gallery.
1874, Edgar Degas, Eugene Manet -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Degas painted this portrait of Manet's younger brother Eugène to mark the occasion of his marriage to Berthe Morisot and offered it to the couple as a wedding gift. It stands out among Degas's portraits for placing the sitter in a landscape. Both the outdoor setting and his reclined posture recall Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863), for which Eugène had similarly posed, holding a walking stick. Degas exhibited this work at the second Impressionist exhibition, in 1876, along with the oil sketch of Eugene's sister-in-law, Yves Gobillard, also on view in this gallery.