Jean-Baptiste Faure

Manet, Edouard (1832-1883)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1882-1893
Height:
59.1 cm  (23 1/4 in.)
Width:
49.5 cm  (19 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Paris (France)

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 50.71.1]

Description

The noted baritone and collector Jean-Baptiste Faure posed for Manet in the winter of 1882–83. Among the artist's last canvases are this study and another (Metropolitan Museum no. 59.129, RIdIM item 3832) that were made in preparation for a portrait left unfinished at the time of Manet's death in April 1883.

People as subjects

Fauré, Jean-Baptiste (1830-1914) (Musician portrait)

Iconclass

48C8313
portrait of opera-singer

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3820