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Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Manet (1860) by Édouard Manet, a deeply personal and stylistically conservative work that marked his debut at the Paris Salon.
This double portrait depicts Manet’s parents: Auguste Manet, a retired judge, and Eugénie Désirée Fournier, seated side by side in a quiet, domestic setting. Manet painted it in a sober, academic style, with dark tones and restrained brushwork—likely influenced by Spanish masters like Velázquez and Goya, whom Manet admired. The composition is formal, almost austere, with little ornamentation, reflecting both the bourgeois dignity of the sitters and the conventions of mid-19th-century portraiture.
Though it lacks the radical flair of Manet’s later works, this painting was accepted by the Salon of 1861, shown alongside The Spanish Singer, which signaled his emerging interest in modern life and painterly innovation.
The portrait remained in the family for decades, passing from Manet’s brother Eugène to Julie Manet, daughter of Berthe Morisot, before being donated to the French state in 1977. It now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay.
This celebrated work is Édouard Manet’s last major painting, completed a year before he died. At one of the bars in the Folies-Bergère — a popular Parisian music hall — wine, champagne and British Bass beer with its red triangle logo await customers. A fashionable crowd mingles on the balcony. The legs and green boots of a trapeze artist in the upper left hint at the exciting musical and circus acts entertaining the audience. This animated background is in fact a reflection in the large gold-framed mirror, which projects it into the viewer’s own space.
Manet made sketches on-site but painted this work entirely in his studio, where a barmaid named Suzon came to pose. She is the painting’s still centre. Her enigmatic expression is unsettling, especially as she appears to be interacting with a male customer. Ignoring normal perspective, Manet shifted their reflection to the right. The bottles on the left are similarly misaligned in the mirror. This play of reflections emphasises the disorientating atmosphere of the Folies-Bergère. In this work, Manet created a complex and absorbing composition that is considered one of the iconic paintings of modern life.
Le Parti de l'Impressionnisme, la collection Courtauld de Londres,
à la Fondation Louis Vuitton de Paris,
jusqu'au 17 juin 2019.
Édouard Manet - Tama, the Japanese Dog, 1875 at East Wing of National Gallery of Art Washington DC
Also viewed at the Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco CA for Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art
ANKARA
15.02.2012
15ème Festival International de Jazz d'Ankara
15. Uluslararası Ankara Caz Festivali
Edouard Manet - Il signor Arnaud a cavallo (Mr Arnaud on Horseback), 1875 at Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano - Milan Italy
4.4.2009: pulpit used by Hugh Latimer and Thomas Bilney, Church of St. Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge
Oil on canvas
42.9 x 43.8 cm (16 7/8 x 17 1/4 in.)
Victorine Meurent - Edouard Manet 1862
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
Le dejeuner sur la terasse. Roast chicken, roast vegetables and a bottle of wine from our next door neighbour's vineyard!
Manet depicted model Victorine Meurent (1844–1928) in the guise of a male espada, or matador, borrowing her pose from a Renaissance print. Victorine’s shoes are unsuitable for bullfighting, and the pink cape that she flourishes is the wrong hue, but she carries off her role with panache. The backdrop reproduces a scene from Goya’s Tauromaquia series, celebrating the feats of bullfighters. When this painting was exhibited at the infamous Salon des Refusés of 1863, a commentator noted, "Manet loves Spain, and his favorite master seems to be Goya, whose vivid and contrasting hues, whose free and fiery touch he imitates."
Edouard Manet Woman with a Cat, about 1880-2
Manet's wife Suzanne relaxes on a sofa just to the right of a pale blue curtain, Her pink dress makes a startling contrast with a black and white cat sitting on her lap. The exceptionally loose brushwork suggests that the portrait may be unfinished.
Descripción: Óleo sobre lienzo. 96 x 130 cm.
Localización: Courtauld Institute Galleries. Londres
Autor: Edouard Manet
Manet. Seemed appropriate.....
The less well known of his luncheons complete with Baudelaire the cat bottom left.
Musée d'Orsay,
Paris, France
Eva Gonzalès
Une loge aux Italiens, 1874
Oil on canvas
The vivid female figure relates visually more directly to the bouquet of flowers - either presented to her, or intended for the star performer - than to her escort. The artist, Manet's only pupil, like her teacher showed at the official Salons rather than with the Impressionists.
The theatre auditorium, and in particular the box, a popular place for society exchanges, was a subject frequently chosen by the Impressionists. The most famous of these works is, without doubt, The Theatre Box (London, Courtauld Institute Galleries) which Renoir submitted in the first Impressionist Exhibition in 1874. This painting by Eva Gonzalès was produced at the same time and, in its first version, may have been refused initially at the 1874 Salon, before being exhibited, after some changes, at the 1879 Salon, where it was given a rapturous reception.
The young painter claimed that she had been taught by Manet, who advised her as a friend. This relationship can be clearly seen, as much in the choice of a "modern" subject as in the sharp contrasts where pale skin and light-coloured fabrics are set against a dark background. The bouquet placed on the edge of the box is almost directly quoted from the master, and recalls the bouquet offered to Olympia. One even wonders if Manet had not had a direct involvement in the painting's design, as there is a pastel version by him, which remained a sketch. The strange detachment of the figures – Henri Guérard, the husband of the artist, and her sister, Jeanne Gonzalès – also recalls Manet's decision never to give the spectator an explicit interpretation of the subject, thus avoiding the pitfalls of anecdote and facile sentimentality.
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