Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
Édouard Manet
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Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)1867
Édouard Manet
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904) →Impressionism19th centurynineteenth centuryoil on canvasportrait
Date
1867
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
117.5 × 90 cm (46 1/4 × 35 7/16 in.); Framed: 143.6 × 115 × 11.5 cm (56 1/2 × 45 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Stickney Fund
Finely dressed and carrying an elegant walking stick, influential French artist Édouard Manet appears before a stark background evocative of his own paintings as well as photographic portraits of the time. Created by his friend Henri Fantin-Latour, this depiction confronted the public perception of Manet as a radical bohemian painter of coarse and confrontational compositions (for an example of this, see his Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers). Fantin-Latour instead portrayed him as the genteel man-about-town he actually was.
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