Image

Édouard Manet

Portrait of Charles Baudelaire

Description

Maker

Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883), designer
A. Salmon, printer

Title

Portrait of Charles Baudelaire

Year

1863

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

etching

Supports

Dimensions

Plate: 9.7 x 8.3 cm (3 13/16 x 3 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

In Plate--Signed, LR:Manet; in LL:Peint et Gravé par Manet. 1865; in LR:Imp. A. Salmon.

Marks: RISD Museum stamp in brown ink on verso.

Identification

State

iv/iv

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

48.034

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Artist, Rebel, Dandy
Men of Fashion
Apr 26, 2013 – Aug 18, 2013

Label copy

In The Painter of Modern Life (1863) Charles Baudelaire took Barbey d'Aurevilly's concept of the artist dandy a step further by focusing on his intellectual stance, positioning him as a rebel against mainstream society. Baudelaire declared the dandy to have an "aristocratic superiority of mind" and to be in possession of the "characteristic quality of opposition and revolt." In Baudelaire's vision, the artist dandy conveyed a spiritual message that transcended and opposed the vulgarities of the everyday world, paving the way for change.

Helen M. Danforth
A Tribute
Jun 21, 1985 – Sep 08, 1985
19th-20th Century Portraits from the Museum's Collection
Feb 01, 1962 – Mar 01, 1962

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Tombstone

Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883), designer
A. Salmon, printer
Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, 1863
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 9.7 x 8.3 cm (3 13/16 x 3 1/4 inches)
Anonymous gift 48.034

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