''La Négresse'' is an 1862 oil on canvas painting by
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
, now in the
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in
Turin
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.
The name of the model for the work is
Laure, the black woman holding a bunch of flowers in the same artist's ''
Olympia''. The work is still linked with the "black beauties of Baudelaire"
[.] in reference to his mistress Jeanne Duval, although Duval was
mixed-race
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races and the term multi-ethnic people refers to people who are of more than one ethnicities. A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for mul ...
rather than black.
Baudelaire and Manet became close friends, during which time he produced a portrait of Duval in 1862, entitled ''Baudelaire's Mistress''. The poet was often in the painter's studio.
[.]
''La Négresse'' is mentioned in Manet's posthumous inventory in 1883 under number 46 and was owned by Éva Gonzalès-Guérard, then Auguste Pellerin, then Alexandre Louis Philippe Berthier, prince of Wagram. In 1913 it belonged to
Baron Herzog in
Budapest
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, from whom it was looted by Nazi troops.
The work passed through Berlin and
Honolulu
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between 1933 and 1959, before entering its present home. It appeared in volume 1 of the 1975 Rouart-Wilderstein catalogue under the reference number RW 68.
See also
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List of paintings by Édouard Manet
This is a list of some of the more well-known paintings of French artist Édouard Manet (1832–1883).
List
External links
* Manet overview pages at museum web sites with collection databases:
*Art Institute of Chicago*Barnes Foundation*Bri ...
*
1862 in art
References
Bibliography
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* Adolphe Tabarant, ''Manet et ses Å“uvres'', Paris, Gallimard, 1947, 600 p.
* Adolphe Tabarant, ''Les Manet de la collection Havemeyer : La Renaissance de l'art français'', Paris, 1930, XIII edition
* Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, ''Manet raconté par lui-même'', vol. 2, t. I and II, Paris, Henri Laurens, 1926.
* Collectif RMN (Stéphane Guégan, Laurence des Cars, Simone Kelly, Nancy Locke, Helen Burnham, Louis-Antoine Prat – contributors; interview with Philippe Sollers), ''Manet inventeur du moderne'', Paris, 2011, 297 p. ().
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Portraits by Édouard Manet
1862 paintings
Portraits of women
Paintings in the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
Paintings of black people
Oil on canvas paintings
Nazi-looted art
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