Manet's Studio in the Batignolles
Medium
Lithographic crayon, oil paint, and black ink
Dimensions
11 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (29.2 x 39.4cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Helena M. Loewel, in memory of her brother, Charles W. Kraushaar, 1919
Accession Number
19.86
Tags
About the Artist
Henri Fantin-Latour|Jean-Frédéric Bazille|Auguste Renoir|Emile Zola|Edmond Maître|Otto Scholderer|Claude Monet|Zacharie Astruc · 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 ...