Auguste Manet
Auguste Manet (* 1797 in Gennevilliers ; † 1862 in Paris ) was a French lawyer and father of the famous painter Édouard Manet .
biography
He was the son of the landowner and dike builder Clément Manet, and after completing his training as a lawyer, he went on to become a civil servant. He became head of the department chef du Personell in the French Ministry of Justice in Paris . He then became a judge at the Court of Justice of the Seine department . As conseiller de la cour (Councilor) he ended his career in civil service. Manet had been a Knight of the French Legion of Honor since 1832 .
On January 18, 1831 he married Eugénie-Desirée Fournier (1811–1895), daughter of the diplomat Joseph-Antoine-Ennemond Fournier . Their first son, the future painter Édouard Manet, was born on January 23, 1832. The sons Eugène in 1833 and Gustave in 1835 followed . In 1877 Eugène married the painter Berthe Morisot . Their daughter Julie Manet , Auguste Manet's granddaughter, was also a painter.
Édouard Manet's painting Portrait de M. et Mme Auguste Manet , oil on canvas, 111.5 × 91 cm, was completed in 1860 and shown for the first time in May 1861 at the Salon de Paris . It was in the painter's family collection, bought by the French state in 1977 and shown in the Louvre and Jeu de Paume . It has been assigned to the Musée d'Orsay since 1986 .
literature
- Anton Henze : Edouard Manet. Life and work. Belser Verlag, Stuttgart 1989; ISBN 3-7630-1935-9
Individual evidence
- ^ Barbara Wittmann: Giving Faces: Édouard Manet and the Poetics of Portraits , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2004, ISBN 9783770540051 , p. 34
- ^ Nancy Locke: Manet and the Family Romance , p. 45
- ^ Website of the Musée d'Orsay
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manet, Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer and father of the painter Édouard Manet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gennevilliers |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1862 |
| Place of death | Paris |