Profile Portrait of Charles Baudelaire

 

Edouard Manet

  1832 - 1883 (biography)

1862 /1869 

etching 

4 3/16 x 3 1/2" platemark 

artist's Japanese-style monogram in enclosure box with hatching, in plate, upper left 

unnumbered, as usual 

engraved artist and printer info along bottom edge of plate; dated 1862 from the first state 

Harris figs. 122, 123 (state 2); also see Harris fig. 51 

delicate fibrous laid 

2nd state (published 1869) 

artist 

21852 

$750.00 

This state was published two years after the death of the poet Baudelaire, in the book "Charles Baudelaire" by Charles Asselineau. The image was done after the artist's own painting "Concert at Tuileries", or "Music at Tuileries", which included the figures of many of Manet's contemporaries in the arts. Baudelaire is pictured as a shadowed figure in a top hat, standing in conversation in front of a tree in the left side of the painting.