Édouard Manet

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1867

Henri Fantin-Latour
French, 1836-1904

Finely dressed and carrying an elegant walking stick, influential French artist Édouard Manet appears before a stark background evocative of his own paintings as well as photographic portraits of the time. Created by his friend Henri Fantin-Latour, this depiction confronted the public perception of Manet as a radical bohemian painter of coarse and confrontational compositions (for an example of this, see his Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers). Fantin-Latour instead portrayed him as the genteel man-about-town he actually was.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour
Title: Édouard Manet
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1867
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: A mon Ami Manet. / Fantin. 1867.
Dimensions: 117.5 × 90 cm (46 1/4 × 35 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Stickney Fund
Reference Number: 1905.207
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Bazire, Edmond, Manet (Paris, 1884) pp.132-3, note 1.
Biez, Jacques de, Edouard Manet: Conférence faite à la salle des capucines le Mardi 22 Janvier 1884: Portrait d’après Fantin-Latour (Paris, 1884).
Casagnary, Jules Antoine, Salons (1857-1870), preface by Eugene Spuller (Paris, Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1892) Vol. 1, p. 246.
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Charles Ricketts, “Fantin-Latour,” Burlington Magazine 6 (October 1904), p. 18.
Armand Dayot, “Le Classicisme de Manet,” L’Art et les Artistes 2 (1906), p. 38 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 26 (June 1904 - June 1905), p. 50.
Henry Marcel, La Peinture Française aux XIXe siècle (Paris, 1905), p.232.
Jerome Doucet, Les Peintres français: Fantin-Latour. Corot, Les trois Vernet, Ingres, J.-P. Laurens, Bouguereau, Puvis de Chavannes, Jules Breton, Meissonier, Fromentin, Yvon, Millet (Paris, Librairie Félix Juven, 1905), pp. 10-1 (ill.).
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Catalogue de l’oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour (Paris, Henry Floury, 1911) p. 42, no. 296.
Jean Laran, George Le Bas, Louis Hourticq, Édouard Manet (Paris, 1912), frontispiece ill.
Antonin Proust, Édouard Manet: souvenirs (Paris, 1913), p. 71.
Frank Gibson, The Art of Henri Fantin-Latour: His Life and Work (London, Drane’s ltd., n.d.). pp. 37, 53, 79, 98, 103, 190, 209, 213, 220, pl. 7.
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Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet (Paris, 1932) vol. 1, p. 4.
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The Fine Arts 20 (June 1933) p. 32 (ill.).
C. J. Bulliet, Art Masterpieces in a Century of Progress Fine Arts Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1933) no. 39 (ill.).
Pantheon 11 (January - June 1933), p. 78.
Gotthard Jedlicka, Edouard Manet (Erlenbach-Zurich, Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1941) pp. 117, 121, 137.
Louis Hautecoeur, Littérature et peinture en France du XVIIe au XXe siecle (Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1942), p. 144.
Emile Zola, “Rejected in 1863. Newly translated: Zola’s Story of the Salon des Refusés from L’Oeuvre,” (translated by Katherine Woods, Art News, vol. 45, no. 7, September 1946, pp. 22-25.
Tullo Gramantieri, Il Caso Manet (Rome, Fratelli Palombi, 1944), frontspiece ill.
Emile Zola, “Rejected in 1863,” Art News 45 (September 1946), ill. p. 22.
S. Lane Faison Jr., “Manet’s Portrait of Zola,” Magazine of Art 42 (May 1949), pp. 166-7, fig. 7.
George Heard Hamilton, Manet and his Critics (Yale University Press, 1954) p. 90 n. 262, p. 262.
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Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago 61 (January 1967), ill.
Pierre Courthion, Impressionism (New York, 1972) p. 104.
Albert Boime, “New Light on Manet’s Execution of Maximilian,” Art Quarterly 36 (1973), p.191, 203, fig. 23.
John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (4th rev. ed. New York, 1973) p. 170; ill. p. 189.
Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso, exh. cat. (15 October 1976 -17 January 1977), under no. 60.
Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago (Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 10 February - 10 April 1977), under no. 57.
Edward Lucie-Smith, Henri Fantin-Latour (New York, Rizzoli, 1977) pp. 28, 146, fig. 19.
Theodore Reff, Manet and Modern Paris, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, December 1982 - March 1983), pp. 13-4.
Manet 1832-1883 (Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 22 April - 8 August 1983; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (10 September - 27 November 1983), p. 447, fig. a.
Kathleen Adler, Manet (Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1986) pp. 22 - 23, fig. 11.
Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), pp. 82-3.
David Bomford, Jo Kirby, John Leighton and Ashok Roy, Art in the Making: Impressionism (London, 1991), p. 202 (ill.).
Edgar Peters Bowron and Mary G. Morton, Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 150.
Sona Johnson, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections, exh. cat. (Baltimore Museum of Art, October 1999 - January 2000), under no. 30.
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 30 (ill.).
Carol Armstrong, Manet Manette (New Haven, London, 2002), pp. 308-312.
The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 4, p. 32 (ill.).
Scott Allan, Emily A. Beeny and Gloria Groom, eds., Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019), 12, 174, 174n1, 185, 273 cat. 1, 274, 289.
Dorothee Hansen, ed., Manet and Astruc: Friendship and Inspiration, exh. cat. (Munich and Berlin: Deutscher Kustverlag, 2021), 194-95 cat. 24, 301.

Paris, Palais des Champs-Elysees. Salon de 1867, no. 571, as Portrait de M.M…
London, International Exhibition, 1871, no. 1511.
Paris, Exposition universelle internationale de 1889 à Paris,1889, no. 339, as Portrait de Manet, app. À Mme Manet.
Paris, Palais de l’école nationale des beaux-arts, Exposition de l’oeuvre de Fantin-Latour, May-June 1906, preface by Leonce Benedite (Paris: librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1906), no. 32.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 6 March - 6 April 1929, no. 40.
New York, Museum of Fine Arts, December 1931.
New York, Museum of French Art, French Institute in the United States, Fantin-Latour 1836-1904, January-February 1932, no. 8 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1 June -1 November 1933, no. 322.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1 June - 1 November 1934, no. 244.
Grenoble, Musée-Bibliothèque de Grenoble, Centenaire de Henri Fantin-Latour, August - October 1936, catalogue by Julien et Ferdinand Templelaere, no. 19.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Masters of Impressionism, 8 October - 15 November 1948, no.12.
Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham Museum of Art.
The Archaic Smile, 15 January - 10 February1956, catalogue in Bulletin, vol. 5, no. 2, (January 1956), no. 50.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Style, Truth and the Portrait, October 1- November 10, 1963, catalogue by Rémy G. Saisselin, no. 86.
Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, Henri Fantin-Latour 1836-1904, 28 April - 6 June 1966, no. 11.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Edouard Manet, 1832-1883, 3 November - 11 December 1966; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 13 January - 19 February 1967, not in cat.
New York, Wildenstein and Co., Faces from the World of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism a Loan Exhibition for the benefit of The New York Chapter of The
Arthritis Foundation, 2 November - 9 December 1972, no. 28 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600-1900 in the Art Institute of Chicago, 8 July - 11 September 1978, no. 18 (ill).
Paris, Grand Palais, Fantin-Latour, 9 November 1982 - 7 February 1983; Ottawa, Galerie nationale du Canada, 17 March - 22 May 1983; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honour, 18 June - 6 Sept. 1983, no. 68 (ill), as Portrait of Edouard Manet, 1867.
Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], March 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 15 as Portrait of Edouard Manet, 1867; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collection, October 10, 1999 - January 30, 2000, cat. 30, as Edouard Manet, 1867; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: March 15 - May 7, 2000; Cleveland Museum of Art, May 27- July 30, 2000.
London, National Gallery, Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century,June 28-August 28, 2006, cat. 40, as Portrait of Manet, 1867.
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Fantin-Latour: De La Réalité au rêve, June 29-October 28, 2007, cat. 26.
Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 4 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Manet and Modern Beauty, May 26-September 8, 2019, cat. 1; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, October 8, 2019-January 12, 2020.
Kunsthalle Bremen, Manet and Astruc: Friendship and Inspiration, Oct. 23, 2021- Feb. 27, 2022, cat. 24.

Inherited by Edouard Manet’s wife, Suzanne Manet, Paris to at least 1889 [lent to Paris, 1889]; possibly Camentron, Paris [acc. to Paris 1983]. Gustave Tempelaere with Allard and Noel, Paris, by 1900; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1900 [Durand-Ruel photo no. 938, stock no. 5666]; sold to the Art Institute, 1905.

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