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The Artist (Marcellin Desboutin)
Edouard Manet French
Not on view
In Manet’s portrait, his friend Desboutin embodies the type of the bohemian artist. As he fills his pipe, his dog Crouton—a gift from Degas and the etcher Ludovic Lepic—drinks from a water glass. Desboutin trained with Thomas Couture though did not overlap with Manet at the studio. He then lived abroad, primarily in Italy, before financial ruin forced him to return to Paris in the early 1870s. Manet executed this work on a scale intended for the Salon, submitting it in 1876; however, it was rejected by the jury. He exhibited it to acclaim in his studio instead.
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