Head of Jean Baptiste Fauré

Manet, Edouard (1832-1883)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1882-1883
Height:
46.0 cm  (18 1/8 in.)
Width:
37.8 cm  (14 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Paris (France)
School:
French

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 59.129]

Description

From the Met website: Portrait (head) of Jean Baptiste Faure (1830-1914), a baritone at the Paris Opera. Painted in the winter of 1882–83, this study of the baritone Jean-Baptiste Faure was one of three executed in preparation for a portrait left unfinished when Manet died a few months later. Earlier, Manet had painted a full-length portrait of the singer in the role of "Hamlet" (Folkwang Museum, Essen), which drew adverse criticism when it was shown in the Salon of 1877; Faure, who owned many paintings by Manet, refused to accept it.

People as subjects

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

Iconclass

48C8313
portrait of opera-singer

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3832