Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé (1876) by Édouard Manet
Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé is an 1876 oil on canvas portrait by
Édouard Manet of the poet
Stéphane Mallarmé, a friend of Manet's.[1][2] It is now in the
Musée d'Orsay in
Paris, which originally had acquired it from the subject himself.[3]
The painting became famous probably because, as
Georges Bataille remarked, it “radiates the friendship of two great minds”. In fact, Manet and Mallarmé, throughout the last years of the painter's life, saw each other almost daily, and the death of the artist plunged the poet into great sadness, to the point that his absence seemed "unbelievable" to him.
Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé (1876) by Édouard Manet
Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé is an 1876 oil on canvas portrait by
Édouard Manet of the poet
Stéphane Mallarmé, a friend of Manet's.[1][2] It is now in the
Musée d'Orsay in
Paris, which originally had acquired it from the subject himself.[3]
The painting became famous probably because, as
Georges Bataille remarked, it “radiates the friendship of two great minds”. In fact, Manet and Mallarmé, throughout the last years of the painter's life, saw each other almost daily, and the death of the artist plunged the poet into great sadness, to the point that his absence seemed "unbelievable" to him.