| La Négresse | |
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| Artist | Édouard Manet |
| Year | 1862 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 61 cm × 50 cm (24 in × 20 in) |
| Location | Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin |
La Négresse is an 1862 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Turin.
The name of the model for the work is unknown; she may be Laure, the black woman holding a bunch of flowers in the same artist's Olympia.[1] The work is still linked with the "black beauties of Baudelaire"[2] in reference to his mistress Jeanne Duval, although Duval was mixed-race rather than black.[3] Baudelaire and Manet became close friends, during which time he produced a portrait of Duval in 1862, entitled Baudelaire's Mistress. The poet was often in the painter's studio.[4]
La Négresse is mentioned in Manet's posthumous inventory in 1883 under number 46 and was owned by Éva Gonzalès-Guérard, then Auguste Pellerin, then Alexandre Louis Philippe Berthier, prince of Wagram. In 1913 it belonged to Baron Herzog in Budapest, from whom it was looted by Nazi troops.[5] The work passed through Berlin and Honolulu between 1933 and 1959, before entering its present home. It appeared in volume 1 of the 1975 Rouart-Wilderstein catalogue under the reference number RW 68.[6]
See also
References
- ^ "French masterpieces renamed after black subjects in new exhibition". The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. March 26, 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ Guégan, Des Cars & Kelly 2011, p. 156.
- ^ Cachin, Moffett & Bareau 1983, p. 97
- ^ Guégan, Des Cars & Kelly 2011, p. 135.
- ^ "Heirs of Jewish art collector sue over looted 'Nazi' art". July 29, 2010 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ Guégan, Des Cars & Kelly 2011, p. 276
Bibliography
- Cachin, Françoise; Moffett, Charles S.; Bareau, Juliet Wilson (1983). Manet, 1832-1883 : Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 22 avril-1er août 1983, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10 septembre-27 novembre 1983 (in French). [Paris]: Ministère de la Culture. ISBN 2-7118-0230-2. OCLC 9663346.
- (in French) Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, Gallimard, 1947, 600 p.
- (in French) Adolphe Tabarant, Les Manet de la collection Havemeyer : La Renaissance de l'art français, Paris, 1930, XIII edition
- (in French) Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Manet raconté par lui-même, vol. 2, t. I and II, Paris, Henri Laurens, 1926.
- (in French) Collectif RMN (Stéphane Guégan, Laurence des Cars, Simone Kelly, Nancy Locke, Helen Burnham, Louis-Antoine Prat – contributors; interview with Philippe Sollers), Manet inventeur du moderne, Paris, 2011, 297 p. (ISBN 978-2-07-013323-9).
- Guégan, Stéphane; Des Cars, Laurence; Kelly, Simon R. (2011). Manet : inventeur du moderne : [exposition, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 5 avril - 3 juillet 2011 (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-07-013323-9. OCLC 793112848.
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