Portrait of Édouard Manet
Henri Fantin-Latour
1857–1880
- Medium
- Black crayon, with touches of charcoal, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 39.9 × 31.1 cm (15 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)chalkplant materialprints and drawinglithographic crayonscrayonspaper (fiber product)charcoal
About
The composition of this drawing is identical with that of the elegant portrait that Fantin-Latour made of Manet in 1867, also in the Art Institute. The controlled and very finished appearance of this work is characteristic of the drawings Fantin-Latour made after paintings for reproduction in the illustrated press. Indeed, it was drawn as a souvenir of the painting to accompany an article devoted to Manet at the time of the exhibition of his paintings and pastels at the galleries of La Vie Moderne.
