La Négresse (Manet)

La Négresse is an 1862 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Turin.

La Négresse
ArtistÉdouard Manet
Year1862
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions61 cm × 50 cm (24 in × 20 in)
LocationPinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin

The name of the model for the work is unknown; she may be Laure, the black woman holding a bunch of flowers in the same artist's Olympia.[1] The work is still linked with the "black beauties of Baudelaire"[2] in reference to his mistress Jeanne Duval, although Duval was mixed-race rather than black.[3] 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.[4]

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, from whom it was looted by Nazi troops.[5] The work passed through Berlin and Honolulu 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.[6]

References
  1. France-Presse, Agence (March 26, 2019). "French masterpieces renamed after black subjects in new exhibition" – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. (Collectif RMN 2011, p. 156).
  3. (Cachin, Moffett & Wilson-Bareau 1983, p. 97)
  4. (Collectif RMN 2011, p. 135).
  5. "Heirs of Jewish art collector sue over looted 'Nazi' art". July 29, 2010 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  6. (Collectif RMN 2011, p. 276)

Bibliography
  • (in French) Françoise Cachin, Charles S. Moffett and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Manet 1832–1883, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1983, 544 p. (ISBN 2-7118-0230-2).Document utilisé pour la rédaction de l’article
  • (in French) Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, Gallimard, 1947, 600 p.
  • (in French) Adolphe Tabarant, Les Manet de la collection Havemeyer : La Renaissance de l'art français, Paris, 1930, XIII edition
  • (in French) Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Manet raconté par lui-même, vol. 2, t. I and II, Paris, Henri Laurens, 1926.
  • (in French) 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. (ISBN 978-2-07-013323-9).
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