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Édouard Manet - Flowers in a Crystal Vase [1882]
Édouard Manet -
Flowers in a Crystal Vase [1882]
Washington NGoA
Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a staunch city dweller all his life and strolled through the streets of Paris in elegant clothes every day. He felt himself to be part of bourgeois society and at the same time kept the necessary distance to thematize modern life in his paintings. Manet is particularly known as a painter of corresponding portraits and genre scenes.
The situation changed in 1879 when his syphilis disease broke out openly. Manet spent his last three summers in country houses near Paris to cure. In 1882 he was in Rueil on the Seine. Small-format still lifes were intended to distract him and finance his treatment. Therefore he painted various flower bouquets until shortly before his death.
For this purpose, Manet carefully arranged his bouquets in crystal vases on a marble base in the studio, thus capturing their stems with foliage. But here it is a particularly intimate one, a "handful" of white-rose, blue, and red-yellow flowers, so to speak. Reduced to the essentials, they seem to float ageless in front of an indefinite blue-gray background.
Édouard Manet - Flowers in a Crystal Vase [1882]
Édouard Manet -
Flowers in a Crystal Vase [1882]
Washington NGoA
Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a staunch city dweller all his life and strolled through the streets of Paris in elegant clothes every day. He felt himself to be part of bourgeois society and at the same time kept the necessary distance to thematize modern life in his paintings. Manet is particularly known as a painter of corresponding portraits and genre scenes.
The situation changed in 1879 when his syphilis disease broke out openly. Manet spent his last three summers in country houses near Paris to cure. In 1882 he was in Rueil on the Seine. Small-format still lifes were intended to distract him and finance his treatment. Therefore he painted various flower bouquets until shortly before his death.
For this purpose, Manet carefully arranged his bouquets in crystal vases on a marble base in the studio, thus capturing their stems with foliage. But here it is a particularly intimate one, a "handful" of white-rose, blue, and red-yellow flowers, so to speak. Reduced to the essentials, they seem to float ageless in front of an indefinite blue-gray background.