A table of youth of Manet joined the collection of the Musée d'orsay

The Orsay Museum enriches its wide collection of Édouard Manet. The settlement announced Wednesday, June 3, to have acquired by pre-emption at an Internet auction of Christie's, a picture of youth of the painter. Entitled Head of a young man, he was designed after a self-portrait of Filippino Lippi. The price for the hammer to work during the sale was 95.000 euros.

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'orsay, the great parisian museum of the modern art and impressionist (Nineteenth and early-Twentieth), now retains 30 paintings of Manet (besides the pastels and works on paper), whose célébrissimes Olympia and the luncheon on The grass. "The museum has the largest collection in the world. Manet is an artist key around which'orsay turns. A founding figure who invented the very notion of modern art from the 1860s," explained to the AFP, Laurence des Cars, president of the public Establishment of the Musée d'orsay (which also includes the Museum of the Orangerie) .

A painting of his debut

This Head of a young man, according to the table, preserved at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the date of its inception. He painted it at the age of 21. "It is a type of work by Manet that we didn't at all. See the report of the young painter in the old master. A man who frequents museums, it shows a report done at the time of tribute and transgression" in its copy. "The picture is troubling, the key firm, decided, energetic", was described by Laurence des Cars.

Manet reproduced a self-portrait of Filippino Lippi (right), Italian painter of the Fifteenth century. Rights reserved/Orsay Museum/Gallery UffiziÀ read also : Léon, the son hidden and overexposed Édouard Manet

At this time Édouard Manet would have destroyed or given to the works of his youth, the execution of which is not satisfied with little. We know of the artist a dozen copies after the masters of Italy, Spain or the North. Manet was able to achieve at the Louvre during his training with the painter Thomas Couture, or in the course of his travels, when he stayed in Florence in 1853 and 1857.

The table is troubling, the key firm, decided, energetic,

Laurence des Cars, president of the public Establishment of the Musée d'orsay

His interest in Lippi (1457-1504), painter of the Quattrocento appears singular. Manet is shown to be sensitive to the particular technique of the work: a painting in fresco on flat tile that he has reproduced on a wood support. On this figure of three-quarters, it focuses on the particular expression to the questioning look and worried, while the young model has an open mouth. In 2019, the public Establishment of the Musée d'orsay has made 52 acquisitions, and already eleven in the first five months of 2020. After the months of confinement, Orsay should reopen its doors on June 23.

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