1869, Edouard Manet, The Balcony (detail) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Manet had his friends model for this unconventional group portrait, which includes his first portrayal of the painter Berthe Morisot shown seated, along with the landscape artist Antoine Guillemot and the violinist Fanny Clas. Manet's godson, Leon Leonhoff, is barely visible in the shadowy background. The figures appear frozen and detached, trapped behind the balcony railing in the liminal space between the public street and the private interior of the dark room beyond. After seeing the painting at the 1969 Salon, Morisot wrote that it gave her “the impression of some wild fruit, a bit unripe even... I look more strange than ugly.”
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Link to other paintings from the exhibition “Manet/Degas".
Link to other Manet paintings.
1869, Edouard Manet, The Balcony (detail) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Manet had his friends model for this unconventional group portrait, which includes his first portrayal of the painter Berthe Morisot shown seated, along with the landscape artist Antoine Guillemot and the violinist Fanny Clas. Manet's godson, Leon Leonhoff, is barely visible in the shadowy background. The figures appear frozen and detached, trapped behind the balcony railing in the liminal space between the public street and the private interior of the dark room beyond. After seeing the painting at the 1969 Salon, Morisot wrote that it gave her “the impression of some wild fruit, a bit unripe even... I look more strange than ugly.”
Link to the full painting.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition “Manet/Degas".
Link to other Manet paintings.