![]() Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection Reference Number 1942.311 IIIF Manifest (circa) or BCE.ġ864 Medium Oil on canvas Inscriptions Signed lower right: Manet Dimensions 73.5 × 92.4 cm (28 15/16 × 36 3/8 in.) Credit Line Mr. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. Status On View, Gallery 222 Department Painting and Sculpture of Europe Artist Édouard Manet Title Fish (Still Life) Place France (Artist's nationality:) Dateĭates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Manet never submitted his still lifes to the official French Salon but rather sold them through the burgeoning network of art galleries in Paris and gave them to friends. Further enliven-ing the composition is the placement of the carp, which offsets the strong diagonal of the other elements. While Fish is indeed an image of “dead nature” (nature morte is the French term for still life), there is nothing still about the work: the produce seems fresh and the handling of paint vigorous. The directness of execution, bold brushwork, and immediacy of vision displayed in the canvas, however, suggest why the public found Manet’s work so unorthodox and confrontational. ![]() This painting, like many of Manet’s still-life compositions, recalls seventeenth-century Dutch models. Manet’s focus on still lifes coincided with the gradual reacceptance of the genre during the nineteenth century, due in part to the growth of the middle class, whose tastes ran to intimate, moderately priced works. ![]() Although still-life ensembles were an important element in many of the major paintings of the avant-garde artist Édouard Manet, his most sustained interest in the genre itself was from 1864 to 1865, when Fish was painted. ![]()
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