Édouard Manet  1867

by Henri Fantin-Latour

Édouard Manet was at the peak of his notoriety when the young Henri Fantin-Latour exhibited this portrait at the Salon of 1867. Manet himself chose not to submit any work that year, having had his submission rejected by the 1866 Salon jury. In this commanding image of the great French artist, Fantin portrayed Manet not as a painter, but as a flaneur, a sophisticated man-ab...
Size: 
46 1/4 × 35 7/16 in. (117.5 × 90 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago