Édouard Manet, Bust-Length Portrait

Edgar Degas|Edouard Manet

ca. 1868 · Etching, drypoint, and aquatint; third state of four · Drawings and Prints

Manet's intensity and wit emerge, sizzling, from Degas's tightly packed lines. The portrait corresponds to Zola's description: "the eyes, narrow and deep set, have a boyish liveliness and fire; the mouth very characteristic, thin, mobile, a trifle mocking at the corners."

Artist

Edgar Degas|Edouard Manet

Date

ca. 1868

Medium

Etching, drypoint, and aquatint; third state of four

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Imrie de Vegh, 1949