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Édouard's Amis

Manet and Friends
Palmer Museum of Art
January 15 – April 6, 2008

Impressionist artist Édouard Manet experimented with printmaking early in the 1860s at the time etching had undertaken a revival in the Parisian art circles. Alphonse Legros and Félix Bracquemond were two of the key players in this rediscovery of printmaking and they worked with Manet. The threesome, along with others notably the publisher Alfred Cadart, founded the Société des Aquafortistes, to aid in the promotion of etching.

Charles Baudelaire, Full Face III by Edouard Manet from the Manet and Friends exhibit at the Palmer Museum of Art
Title: Charles Baudelaire, Full Face III, 1868
Artist: Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
Medium: Etching, Fourth State of Four
Permanent Collection: Palmer Museum of Art
Francis E. Hyslop Collection.
Image Courtesy: Palmer Museum of Art

Manet etched a portrait of Charles Baudelaire, the French poet, whose most acclaimed work was his first Les Fleurs du Mal / The Flowers of Evil, first published in 1857.

Highlights include etchings Manet created in the early 1860s precursors to some of his best known paintings such as The Absinthe Drinker, The Spanish Singer, The Espada, Dead Christ with Angels and Olympia.

Dijon native Alphonse Legros, was both a painter and an etcher. Eventually he left Paris for England and went on to teach at the University College, London. Variety was important to him, he was known to sketch or paint a torso or head in less than an hour acknowledging the limited attention spans of his young charges.

Illustration for Souvenirs des Funambules by Alphonse Legros from the Manet and Friends exhibit at the Palmer Museum of Art
Title: Illustration for Souvenirs des Funambules1859
Artist: Alphonse Legros (French, 1837-1911)
Medium: Etching
Permanent Collection: Palmer Museum of Art
Image Courtesy: Palmer Museum of Art

Jeannot Lapin by Felix Bracquemond from the Manet and Friends exhibit at the Palmer Museum of Art
Title: Jeannot Lapin / The Large Rabbit, 1891
Artist: Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833-1914)
Medium: Etching and Drypoint, Seventh State of Seven
Permanent Collection: Palmer Museum of Art
Image Courtesy: Palmer Museum of Art

Like Manet, Félix Bracquemond was a French Impressionist painter and an etcher. He was included in the Parisian Salon when he was barely nineteen, with his portrait of his grandmother. His etching skills helped bring about the revival of the genre in his native France. Besides original subjects he also etched famous paintings by other noted French artists such as Corot, Moreau and Meissonier.

Manet and Friends was been organized in memory of George Mauner, Penn State distinguished professor emeritus of art history and a leading Manet scholar who passed away June 7, 2004.


Manet and Friends
Palmer Museum of Art on the Penn State University Park:
January 15 – April 6, 2008

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