Édouard Manet
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.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
87467
Art Historical Context
Henri Fantin-Latour's *Édouard Manet* (1867) is a striking oil-on-canvas portrait that captures the essence of one of modern art's pivotal figures. Measuring 117.5 × 90 cm, this large-scale work depicts the French painter Édouard Manet seated confidently, his intense gaze and modern attire reflecting his bold challenge to artistic conventions. Created by Fantin-Latour, a close friend and fellow Realist, the painting hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Painting and Sculpture of Europe, exemplifying 19th-century portraiture at its finest. Painted in Paris during a transformati...
About the Artist
Henri Fantin-Latour · 1836–1904
Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour was born on January 14, 1836, in Grenoble, France, to portrait painter Théodore Fantin-Latour, who gave him his earliest drawing lessons. The family relocated to Paris in 1841, where in 1850, at age 14, he enrolled in the École de Dessin, studying under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose innovative memory-based method of drawing from observation profoundly ...