Édouard Manet
Charles Baudelaire, Full Face (version three)
1867
Scroll
Édouard Manet
Charles Baudelaire, Full Face (version three)
1867
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 215 x 138 mm. (8 7/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
Plate: 173 x 104 mm. (6 13/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Image: 165 x 98 mm. (6 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.5154
This bust portrait, likely undertaken after Baudelaire’s death, was based on an image by the prominent French photographer Nadar. Here the writer’s head and shoulders stand out against a subtly toned background. In later versions of the print, as a reminder of the writer’s passing, Manet added a dark backdrop, an elaborate scroll with Baudelaire’s name, and an entwined flower.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon
Harris, Jean C. Edouard Manet, The Graphic Work: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Collectors Editions Limited, 1970; revised edition, San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1990), p. 187 illustrated.
Fisher, Jay McKean. The Prints of Edouard Manet (Washington, D.C.: The International Exhibitions Foundation, 1985), p. 79 illustrated.
Harris, Jean C. Edouard Manet, The Graphic Work: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Collectors Editions Limited, 1970; revised edition, San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1990), p. 186, #61.
Fisher, Jay McKean. The Prints of Edouard Manet (Washington, D.C.: The International Exhibitions Foundation, 1985), pp. 79-80, #42.
Wilson, Juliet. Manet: Dessins, aquarelles, eaux-fortes, lithographies, correspondence (Paris: Galerie Huguette Berès, 1978), #46.
Wilson, Juliet. Edouard Manet: L’Oeuvre gravé (Ingelheim am Rhein: Stadtverwaltung Ingelheim, 1977), pp. 100-101, #61.
Guérin, Marcel. L’Oeuvre gravé de Manet (Paris: Librairie Floury, 1944), #38.
Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne. Manet graveur et lithographe (Paris: Loys Delteil, 1906), #16.
Fisher, Jay McKean. The Prints of Edouard Manet (Washington, D.C.: The International Exhibitions Foundation, 1985), pp. 79-80, #42.
Wilson, Juliet. Manet: Dessins, aquarelles, eaux-fortes, lithographies, correspondence (Paris: Galerie Huguette Berès, 1978), #46.
Wilson, Juliet. Edouard Manet: L’Oeuvre gravé (Ingelheim am Rhein: Stadtverwaltung Ingelheim, 1977), pp. 100-101, #61.
Guérin, Marcel. L’Oeuvre gravé de Manet (Paris: Librairie Floury, 1944), #38.
Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne. Manet graveur et lithographe (Paris: Loys Delteil, 1906), #16.
Inscribed: Signed in pencil: lower right "Manet" Inscribed in pencil: along bottom, in unknown hand "Baudelaire / reproduire il cette grandeur (par le fond)"
Markings: None
