The Funeral
ca. 1867 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 28 5/8 x 35 5/8 in. (72.7 x 90.5 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1909
Manet’s unfinished painting is thought to depict the funeral of the writer Charles Baudelaire, which took place on September 2, 1867. The artist, unlike other friends who had yet to return from vacation or stayed away owing to the threatening summer storm, was among the few mourners present. This view of the meager funeral cortège at the foot of the Butte Mouffetard, a hill in southwest Paris, is framed by the silhouettes of the towers and cupolas of the Val de Grâce, the Panthéon, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, and the Tour de Clovis in the background. Manet kept the picture until his death. In 1894 Pissarro acquired it in exchange for one of his own landscapes.
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About this artwork
The Funeral (ca. 1867) by Edouard Manet, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Edouard Manet
(23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
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