Museum Exhibition
Manet and Modern Beauty
Art Institute of Chicago
May 26, 2019 – September 8, 2019
The first Art Institute exhibition devoted exclusively to Édouard Manet in over 50 years focuses on the artist's work in his later years—favorite actresses and models, illustrated letters, and elegant still lifes.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Édouard Manet
Woman Reading
1880–82
Oil on canvas
61.2 × 50.7 cm (24 1/16 × 19 7/8 in.); Framed: 83.2 × 73.1 × 9.9 cm (32 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
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Édouard Manet
Portrait of a Woman with a Black Fichu
c. 1878
Oil on canvas
62.2 × 51.2 cm (24 1/2 × 20 1/8 in.); Framed: 83.8 × 72.7 × 10.8 cm (33 × 28 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
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Édouard Manet
Jeanne (Spring)
1902
Etching and foul-biting in black on ivory laid paper
Image: 15.5 × 10.7 cm (6 1/8 × 4 1/4 in.); Plate: 24.3 × 18.2 cm (9 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 28 × 20.3 cm (11 1/16 × 8 in.)
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Henri Fantin-Latour
Édouard Manet
1867
Oil on canvas
117.5 × 90 cm (46 1/4 × 35 7/16 in.); Framed: 143.6 × 115 × 11.5 cm (56 1/2 × 45 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
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Édouard Manet
Portrait of Alphonse Maureau
1878/79
Pastel on canvas, prepared with an off-white ground
54.7 × 45.2 cm (21 9/16 × 17 13/16 in.)
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Édouard Manet
Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man
1880
Watercolor with pen and brown ink and graphite on cream wove paper
20.1 × 12.4 cm (7 15/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
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