Édouard Manet, 1881 - Woman Lying on the Beach. Annabel Lee. - fine art print

(© - by Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) - Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark))

In the summer of 1881,Manet did several drawings for his friend, the poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), who in 1877 published Edgar Allan Poe’s (1809-1849) poems in a French prose translation.

Les poèmes d’Edgar Poe was reissued in 1888, but Manet’s illustrations only appeared in the subsequent 1889 edition. This drawing accompanied the poem Annabel Lee.

The poem's young girl Annabel Lee Poe opens his poem by telling his readers that many years ago, a young girl lived ”in a kingdom by the sea”. Now she lives on only in the poet’s memories and is recalled in the poem. Manet, however, depicted a woman who was very much alive, a modern young Parisian from his own circles.

Manet's depiction of Annabel She is stretched on the beach like a passing exotic bird, a fashionable tourist at one of the seaside resorts in the north of France frequented by the middle classes. Nature serves as a backdrop to the girl in a manner similar to that of another Manet, the notorious Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass).

Nature as illusion The artist himself never pursued any rural exile; he lived according to the conditions of modernity, and his awareness of these conditions is clearly evident in his pictures. To him, nature was an illusion, a backdrop for modern man’s urban existence.

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The work of art titled Woman Lying on the Beach. Annabel Lee. was painted by Édouard Manet in 1881. The beyond 130 year-old original was painted with the size: 302x409 mm and was painted on the medium drawing. brush, grey and black ink over black chalk; framed in pen and blackish brown ink.. This work of art belongs to the art collection of Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are happy to reference that the public domain masterpiece is being provided with courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark.Moreover, the work of art has the following creditline: . On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with an image ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter Édouard Manet was a European artist from France, whose style can be attributed primarily to Realism. The European painter lived for 51 years, born in 1832 and passed away in 1883 in 8th arrondissement of Paris.

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