Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Baudelaire, The Funeral

Jean-Frédéric Bazille
Manet at his easel
c. 1868-70

Édouard Maneet
Baudelaire
etching
1862-67

Édouard Manet
The Funeral (Baudelaire)
1867

Édouard Manet
Posthumous portrait of Baudelaire
etching
1868

Édouard Manet was one of the few Parisians to attend the funeral of Charles Baudelaire in 1867. Manet made a moody painting of that scene (in greens and grays, above) and etched a posthumous portrait of the moody poet he had admired and supported.

Below, another etched portrait by Manet – of his brother's wife, Berthe Morisot  seen here with Morisot's own painting of a young woman on a small sofa in a pale pink dress.

Édouard Manet
Berthe Morisot
etching
1872-74

Berthe Morisot
The Pink Dress
c. 1870

Édouard Manet
Jeanne
etching
1882

Édouard Manet
Philibert Rouvière as Hamlet
etching
1865-66