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Édouard Manet, Bust-Length Portrait

Sitter Edouard Manet French
ca. 1868
Not on view
Manet's intensity and wit emerge, sizzling, from Degas's tightly packed lines. The portrait corresponds to Zola's description: "the eyes, narrow and deep set, have a boyish liveliness and fire; the mouth very characteristic, thin, mobile, a trifle mocking at the corners."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Édouard Manet, Bust-Length Portrait
  • Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
  • Sitter: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1868
  • Medium: Etching, drypoint, and aquatint; third state of four
  • Dimensions: Plate: 5 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. (13 x 10.5 cm)
    Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 in. (28.2 x 20.3 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Imrie de Vegh, 1949
  • Object Number: 49.127.7
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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