Edouard Manet

Charles Baudelaire, de Face

Edouard Manet's original etching, "Charles Baudelaire, de Face" is printed upon hand made, thin, laid paper and with large, full margins. It is signed by Manet in the plate and bearis the inscriptions of both the artist and the printer along the lower margin. Harris # 61. Fourth and Final State. Charles Baudelaire, de Face is a fine, original example of the portrait art created by the French artist, Edouard Manet.

Original Etching by the French artist, Edouard Manet.

Charles Baudelaire, de Face

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Title:	Charles Baudelaire, de Face
Engraver:	Manet, Edouard (Paris, France, 1832 - 1883)
Designer:	Salmon, A.
Date:	1869 (Fourth & Final State: Posthumous Impression?)
Medium:	Original Etching
Note:	Edouard Manet: From 1860 (the year he created his first original print) etching and lithography became as important to Edouard Manet's art as his celebrated paintings. Edouard Manet was one of the first artists to actively experiment with etching during its revival in France and even contributed an original plate to the first issue published by the Societe des Aquafortistes. During this time, Edouard Manet also came into contact with other great pioneers of etching and lithography, such as Bracquemond, Ribot, Legros, Whistler and Fantin-Latour. As well, Edouard Manet was a close friend of the influential poet, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), who, through his perceptive and critical writings championed the cause of etching as the highest form of artistic creativity. From 1862 to 1869 the artist etched five portraits of Baudelaire.
	The years from 1863 to 1870 mark a climatic period in the development of both Manet's graphic art and his paintings. The style which appears in the works of the late 1860's -- often termed, 'Synthetist' -- is Manet's outstanding achievement for the first half of his career, and clearly looks forward to the modern era of art. In such works of original etching such as, Charles Baudelaire, de Face, we see Edouard Manet deliberately moving towards the creation of simplified areas and two-dimensional compositions. This is the beginnings of a new and forceful artistic language, carefully controlled, yet subtly evocative. This alone is sufficient to make Edouard Manet one of the greatest geniuses of nineteenth century art.
	Charles Baudelaire, de Face owes its beginnings to a rather tentative portrait etching it is believed Edouard Manet created in 1865 (see Harris #46). In 1869, two years after Baudelaire's death, Charles Asselineau's completed book, Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son oeuvre, was published. Before publication Manet wrote the author, " My dear Asselineau, You are busy just now, aren't you, on an edition of the works of Baudelaire? If you are inserting a portrait of him as a frontispiece ... I have a portrait of Baudelaire in outdoor clothes, wearing a hat, which perhaps wouldn't look bad at the beginning of this book. I have yet another and more important one of him, bareheaded, which would look well in a book of poetry. I'm very keen to be given this job."
	* The first named portrait is now known as Profile Portrait of Charles Baudelaire (Harris #59). The "more important" and "bareheaded" portrait is, of course, Charles Baudelaire, de Face (Harris #61).
	Both portraits were published in Asselineau's book. Charles Baudelaire, de Face underwent four distinct states (including the removal of a scroll by cutting the lower margin of the plate) before Edouard Manet was satisfied with the work. Fifty proofs of the etching were issued at the time of publication. Later impressions were published by Lemerre, who acquired the plates of both portraits. In Edouard Manet: Graphic Works, Jean C. Harris writes that the first fifty proofs were published on "thin paper". Yet impressions of Charles Baudelaire, de Face exist on both 'thin' China paper and 'thin' laid paper. This particular impression is printed on a thin laid paper but as the type of paper used for the proof impressions is not specified I cannot determine whether it is an initial or later printing. In any case, Charles Baudelaire, de Face is a most important etching from the hand of one of France's greatest nineteenth century masters.
Raisonne:	* Jean C. Harris, Edouard Manet: Graphic Works: A Definitive Catalogue Raisonne, New York, Collectors Edition, 1970.
	Harris # 61. Fourth and Final State as published in 1869. (The above quotation will be found on pp. 133 & 134.)
Size:	3 3/4 X 3 1/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Printed upon hand made, thin, laid paper and with large, full margins. Signed by Manet in the plate (lower right) and bearing the inscriptions of both the artist and the printer along the lower margin. Containing very faint light toning else a finely printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. Charles Baudelaire, de Face represents a prime, original example of the art of Edouard Manet.
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