Portrait of Charles Baudelaire in Profile
Medium
Etching on blue laid paper, only state
Dimensions
Plate: 5 1/8 × 2 15/16 in. (13 × 7.5 cm) Sheet: 9 9/16 × 7 1/4 in. (24.3 × 18.4 cm) Frame: 21 × 16 in. (53.3 × 40.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.76.23
Tags
About the Artist
Edouard Manet|Charles Baudelaire · 1832–1883
Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a French painter who played a pivotal role in the transition from Realism to Impressionism, often called the 'Father of Modern Art.' Born into a wealthy Parisian family, Manet defied his father's wishes for a legal career to pursue painting, studying under academic artist Thomas Couture. His revolutionary works 'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe' and 'Olympia' (both 1863) scand...