Édouard Manet French, 1832-83 - Victorine Meurent, c. 1862 - 20211230_133234
Édouard Manet French, 1832-83
Victorine Meurent, c. 1862
Oil on canvas
Gift of Richard C. Paine in memory of his father. Robert Treat Paine 2nd. 1940, 48 846
While Edouard Manet never participated in the 1874 “Impressionist exhibitions" held between 1874 and 1876, he was a friend and mentor to Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and other Impressionist artists. Victorine Meurent was Manet's great model and muse in the 1860s. Her oval face, russet hair, and gray eyes appear in many of the artist's most ambitious paintings of the period, including Street Singer, on view nearby. This smaller portrait was probably his first painting of Meurent, made when she was still a teenager. It conveys a sense of wary intimacy far removed from his subsequent large-scale works.
Édouard Manet French, 1832-83 - Victorine Meurent, c. 1862 - 20211230_133234
Édouard Manet French, 1832-83
Victorine Meurent, c. 1862
Oil on canvas
Gift of Richard C. Paine in memory of his father. Robert Treat Paine 2nd. 1940, 48 846
While Edouard Manet never participated in the 1874 “Impressionist exhibitions" held between 1874 and 1876, he was a friend and mentor to Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and other Impressionist artists. Victorine Meurent was Manet's great model and muse in the 1860s. Her oval face, russet hair, and gray eyes appear in many of the artist's most ambitious paintings of the period, including Street Singer, on view nearby. This smaller portrait was probably his first painting of Meurent, made when she was still a teenager. It conveys a sense of wary intimacy far removed from his subsequent large-scale works.