Édouard Manet, 1882 - Portrait of Head of Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830–1914) - fine art print

Interesting facts about this over 130 years old painting

Portrait of Head of Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830–1914) is a piece of art by Édouard Manet in 1882. The original measures the size: 18 1/8 x 14 7/8 in (46 x 37,8 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the European painter as the medium of the piece of art. It can be viewed in in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. The modern art artwork, which belongs to the public domain is included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Ralph J. Hines, 1959. Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Mrs. Ralph J. Hines, 1959. Further, the alignment is portrait with a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Édouard Manet was a painter of French nationality, whose artistic style was mainly 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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Painted in the winter of 1882–83, this study of the baritone Jean-Baptiste Faure was one of three executed in preparation for a portrait left unfinished when Manet died a few months later. Earlier, Manet had painted a full-length portrait of the singer in the role of Hamlet (Folkwang Museum, Essen), which drew adverse criticism when it was shown in the Salon of 1877; Faure, who owned many paintings by Manet, refused to accept it.