Edouard Manet

French, 1832 - 1883

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A bouquet of cut flowers in a clear glass vase nearly fills this vertical painting. The vase has straight sides and the rounded bottom is supported by short, round feet. Some of the flowers can be identified as white roses and carnations but other less defined flowers are executed in quick touches of delphinium blue, marigold orange, brick red, and butter yellow. Green stalks and leaves are interspersed throughout, and green stems fill the vase. Some of the flowers and vegetation are thickly painted, and these contrast with other areas where the paint is more thinly applied. The bouquet is set against a pale gray background, and the vase casts a subtle blue shadow to our right. The artist signed the painting in gray letters at the lower right: “Manet.”
Edouard Manet, Flowers in a Crystal Vase, c. 1882, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.37

Flowers in a Crystal Vase

Edouard Manet · c. 1882 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.17.37

Shown from the hips up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a tightly corseted dress looks off to our left in this vertical pastel drawing. The portrait is loosely sketched with blended areas, giving it a soft look. The woman’s body is angled to our left, and her hands touch in front of her lower belly. She looks off with large, wide set, slightly bulging green eyes under dark brows. She has a round face, full pink lips, and the suggestion of a dimple in her chin. Her dark brown hair is pulled up under a gold band, and bangs curl across her forehead. A short, delicate ringlet curls up the nape of her neck. She wears a light-colored, round earring in the ear we see and a string of pearls, which may hold a round jewel that rests in the hollow of her throat. Her dress is powder blue down the front and coffee bean brown to either side and on the sleeves. The edges of the brown sections are lined with flowers drawn loosely in shades of pastel pink, blue, yellow, and green. The low, curving neckline is edged with white ruffles, and the waist is cinched to an almost startling degree. The sleeves come down just past her elbow, and the cuffs are also lined with white ruffles. Long, tan-colored gloves stretch back to the cuffs. The background is fog gray. The artist signed and dated the pastel faintly in the lower left corner, “Manet 1882.”
Edouard Manet, Madame Michel-Lévy, 1882, pastel on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.161

Madame Michel-Lévy

Edouard Manet · 1882 · pastel on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.161

Edouard Manet, Cucumber with Leaves, c. 1880, watercolor and gray wash on laid paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.103

Cucumber with Leaves

Edouard Manet · c. 1880 · watercolor and gray wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1985.64.103

Edouard Manet, Two Apples, 1880, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.102

Two Apples

Edouard Manet · 1880 · watercolor over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1985.64.102

A golden yellow melon painted with thick strokes of straw and butter yellow with touches of camel brown sits at the center of a wooden table with a blue top in this almost square still life painting. The sage-green stem droops over the left side and the whole melon leans slightly to our left. The table fills the lower half of the painting, and its top is painted with visible strokes of marine blue, blue gray, and white. The background is caramel brown painted thinly in areas with a darker shade of brown. The artist signed in lower right, “Manet.”
Edouard Manet, The Melon, c. 1880, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.18.29

The Melon

Edouard Manet · c. 1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.18.29

Two green pears lit from the upper right sit on a pale blue tabletop or ledge against a dark background in this horizontal still life painting. The left pear sits upright against the other. The left-hand pear’s laurel-green skin is flecked with dark brown, and its black stem tips to our left. The other pear lies on its side with its stem angled toward the table to our right. Its lighter green skin is tinged with peach along its top curve. The surface beneath the pears is loosely painted with ice blue flecked with gray, blush pink, and sky blue, perhaps suggesting marble. The front, right corner of the table nearly lines up with the bottom right corner of the composition. The area below the table and the wall behind the table are dark brown. Barely visible, the artist signed the painting with black paint against the dark brown skirt of the table, “Manet.”
Edouard Manet, Pears, 1880, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.18.28

Pears

Edouard Manet · 1880 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.18.28

A pale-skinned young man with a carrot-red beard and hair faces us, straddling a green chair in a sunny outdoor setting in this vertical painting. The scene is loosely painted so his features are indistinct. His eyes are painted as pale blue dots, and he looks out at us. His chair unfolds into an X shape, with interlacing slats to make the seat. He leans forward to rest his hands on one side of the chair, and his legs are spread wide. He wears a marine-blue jacket over a white shirt, sage-green trousers streaked with gray, and black shoes. A soft blue V-shape at the neck suggests a neckerchief. Behind him, a half wall is topped by a trellis. The wall is painted in muted tones of pale laurel green while the trellis is painted with crisscrossed strokes of pine green. Daubs of emerald, pine, and forest green suggest vines and leaves, and flicks of orange, gold, and blue could be flowers. The ground beneath the man is pale peach scattered with thin scribbles and patches of fog blue. The painting is inscribed with “E 72.” in the lower right.
Edouard Manet, George Moore in the Artist's Garden, c. 1879, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2006.128.24

George Moore in the Artist's Garden

Edouard Manet · c. 1879 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2006.128.24

Edouard Manet, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1879, oil on wood, Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Carstairs, 1952.9.1

Portrait of a Lady

Edouard Manet · c. 1879 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1952.9.1

Edouard Manet, The Railway Restaurant, c. 1879, pen and brown ink on wove paper laid down, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2006.128.25

The Railway Restaurant

Edouard Manet · c. 1879 · pen and brown ink on wove paper laid down ·  Accession ID  2006.128.25

A woman with light skin sits facing us across a marble-topped table in a café in this vertical painting. Her body is angled slightly to our right, and she rests her right elbow, on our left, on the table. She leans her right cheek onto the back of her right hand as she gazes into the distance. She holds a cigarette in her other hand, which rests on the tabletop. Her pale pink dress has long sleeves with ruffles at the cuffs, and buttons down the front of the skirt can be seen under the table. A lace bow or ruffles cascade down at her neck. Straw-colored hair peeks out under a black hat encircled with a wide band of lace. A short, stemmed glass sitting on the table in front of her holds a small, round piece of fruit surrounded by caramel-colored liquid. The white marble tabletop is streaked with gray. The burgundy, patterned banquette she sits on takes up the bottom half of the composition, and wood paneling around a slate-gray metal grate fills the top half. Loose brushstrokes are visible throughout. The artist signed the work as if he had written his name on the surface of the table, near the front edge to our left, "Manet."
Edouard Manet, Plum Brandy, c. 1877, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1971.85.1

Plum Brandy

Edouard Manet · c. 1877 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1971.85.1