# Édouard Manet

- By: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
- Date: 1867
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 117.5 × 90 cm (46 1/4 × 35 7/16 in.); Framed: 143.6 × 115 × 11.5 cm (56 1/2 × 45 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Stickney Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/87467)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/dd4f9115-150c-2f1a-0f37-50899553d6b4/full/!1688,1080/0/default.jpg
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Finely dressed and carrying an elegant walking stick, influential French artist Édouard Manet appears before a stark background evocative of his own paintings as well as photographic portraits of the time. Created by his friend Henri Fantin-Latour, this depiction confronted the public perception of Manet as a radical bohemian painter of coarse and confrontational compositions (for an example of this, see his Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers). Fantin-Latour instead portrayed him as the genteel man-about-town he actually was.

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