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Carolus-Duran (1838–1917)

Image credit: The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

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Manet painted this study of the portraitist Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran when staying at a patron’s country estate near Paris. The two artists were old friends and they agreed to paint each other. Carolus-Duran is shown in riding boots in a nonchalant pose suggesting that he has just arrived from his nearby home. Manet wrote that there was ‘too much entertainment here to work seriously’ and the portrait is unfinished, especially its rapidly improvised landscape. The boldly painted figure is resolved enough, however, to understand the impact Manet made as the provocative painter of modern life subjects.
Title

Carolus-Duran (1838–1917)

Date

begun 1876

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 191.8 x W 172.7 cm

Accession number

37.12

Acquisition method

purchased, 1937

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Traces of signature: Manet

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