M. Manet (The Artist's Father) II
Édouard Manet
1861
Medium
Etching, aquatint and plate tone in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 18.7 × 15.6 cm (7 3/8 × 6 3/16 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 26.7 cm (14 1/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
103098
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This is the only known impression of the second state of this etching depicting Auguste Manet, a high official in the Ministry of Justice and subsequently a judge and court counselor. It is Manet's second etched portrait of his father. Both versions are based on the double portrait he painted of his parent in 1860, now in the Musee du Louvre, Paris.