Portrait of Alphonse Maureau
Édouard Manet
1878–1879
- Medium
- Pastel on canvas, prepared with an off-white ground
- Dimensions
- 54.7 × 45.2 cm (21 9/16 × 17 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- pastel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintground (material)gouacheprints and drawingpastelwatercolorpastels (crayons)crayonscoating (material)water-base paint
About
One of the earliest portrait pastels executed by Manet, this dashing subject was the painter Alphonse Maureau, an habitue of the cafe La Nouvelle Athenes.
