A Studio at Les Batignolles explained

A Studio at Les Batignolles
Artist:Henri Fantin-Latour
Year:1870
Height Metric:204
Width Metric:273.5
Metric Unit:cm
Medium:oil on canvas
Museum:Musée d'Orsay
City:Paris

A Studio at Les Batignolles is an oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Fantin-Latour created in 1870. The work is now at the Musée d'Orsay.[1]

Description

Its staging evokes the studio of French painter Édouard Manet and represents him seated and painting. Seated beside him is Zacharie Astruc. The other figures from left to right are painters Otto Scholderer, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, writer Émile Zola (bearded with eyeglasses in his hand), Edmond Maître, Frédéric Bazille (in profile), and Claude Monet. It is known a portrait of Zacharie Astruc by Manet, and it is perhaps the episode of the creation of this painting that is represented.[2]

The painting was exhibited at the 1870 Salon, in Paris.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.musee-orsay.fr/index.php?id=851&L=1&tx_commentaire_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=236 A Studio at Les Batignolles, Musée d'Orsay
  2. Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Les Années impressionnistes: 1870-1889, Courbevoie, ACR édition, 2000 (French), ISBN 2-86770-042-6