Manet's Studio in the Batignolles
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This drawing depicts Fantin-Latour’s circle of friends and fellow practitioners of Impressionism. The artist made it as a preparatory study for a painting exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1870. Édouard Manet is seated before his easel. Surrounding him are other artists, critics, and writers of the Batignolles Group, named after the Paris district where they often convened to discuss ideas. Included are artists Auguste Renoir, Jean-Frédéric Bazille, and Claude Monet, sculptor and journalist Zacharie Astruc, writer Émile Zola, and patron Edmond Maître. Fantin-Latour was a skilled lithographer, and it is possible that he used greasy crayons intended for drawing on slabs of limestone in the lithographic printing process to render this sketch on paper.
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