Edouard Manet, calling card
ca. 1856–83
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 1/4 × 3 3/4 in. (5.7 × 9.6 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera|Calling cards
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of F. C. Schang, 1977
Accession Number
1977.580.20
About this artwork
This engraved calling card belonged to Édouard Manet, the pioneering French painter whose radical approach to modern subjects helped establish Impressionism and influenced generations of avant-garde artists. Calling cards served as essential tools of social navigation in nineteenth-century France, announcing visits and facilitating introductions within Paris's interconnected artistic, literary, and social circles. Manet moved comfortably between these worlds, his bourgeois background and persona...
About the Artist
Anonymous|Edouard Manet
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...