# Portrait of Édouard Manet

- By: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
- Date: 1867/1880
- Medium: Black crayon, with touches of charcoal, on cream wove paper
- Classification: Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions: 39.9 × 31.1 cm (15 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/28170)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/e46e5035df022fa64a40832de3e43c97.jpg
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The composition of this drawing is identical with that of the elegant portrait that Fantin-Latour made of Manet in 1867, also in the Art Institute. The controlled and very finished appearance of this work is characteristic of the drawings Fantin-Latour made after paintings for reproduction in the illustrated press. Indeed, it was drawn as a souvenir of the painting to accompany an article devoted to Manet at the time of the exhibition of his paintings and pastels at the galleries of La Vie Moderne.

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