Woman with black hat

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Woman with a Black Hat (Édouard Manet)
Woman with black hat
Édouard Manet , 1882
Pastel chalk on canvas
50.5 × 43.5 cm
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
(permanent loan from the Rau Collection for UNICEF)

Woman with a black hat , also the head of a woman with a black hat , ( French Portrait de femme ), is a pastel painting on a primed canvas by the painter Édouard Manet . The work, created around 1882, shows the bust-like portrait of an unknown young woman. It measures 50.5 × 43.5 cm and is on permanent loan from the Rau Collection for UNICEF in the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen .

Image description

The picture shows the portrait of a young woman whose identity is unknown. The face appears in half profile, the upper body is shown as a bust-like section. She wears a dark blue dress with a frilled white collar that is visible in the shoulder and chest area . A black hat with ribbon-like decorations sits on his head. The brim of the hat protrudes upwards and reveals the brownish hair on the forehead. The woman has a pale complexion with a rosy touch on the cheeks. The right ear is visible, the small mouth closed, and the lips are highlighted in bright red. She looks ahead with her dark eyes and looks past the viewer to a point to the right outside the picture. Manet has drawn a monochrome gray background around the head, the edges of which stand out like hatching from the largely visible primed canvas. The various possible uses of the pastel chalk are clearly visible in the picture. In the area of ​​the dress, for example, Manet emphasized the structure of the dress with single lines and sketched the outlines of the ruff. For the background and face, the pastel chalk is wiped together to form a smooth surface. The picture is neither signed nor dated.

Manet's portraits of women in pastel

Manet created most of his almost 90 pastel pictures in the last years of his life. The majority of them are portraits of women. Possibly inspired by his painter friend Edgar Degas , he discovered pastel painting as a technique that could be implemented quickly, especially for portraits. Since he rejected professional models because of their unnatural posture, mostly friends stood and sat as models. They were not always ready to undertake the lengthy portrait sessions required for oil paintings and therefore welcomed pastel painting, which promised a quick result.

Some of the women in Manet's pastel paintings are known by name, such as Madame Guillemet, the owner of a fashion shop, or Jeanne Martin, a friend of the painter Jean-Louis Forain . Méry Laurent and Irma Brunner, also portrayed by Manet , had made a name for themselves both as an actress and as a half-world lady. No name has come down to any other women in Manet's portraits, and it remains unclear how they related to him. This is also the case with the painting Woman with a Black Hat , the model of which appears only this once in Manet's works. It is noticeable that in a series of portraits of women Manet portrayed those portrayed with decorative headgear. In Woman with a Maroon Hat ( Museo Soumaya , Mexico City) it is also an unknown woman who appears in the bust-like neckline and whose hat has a chin strap. In Young girl with a summer hat (private collection), a green ribbon and a white flower are part of the decoration of the wide-brimmed hat. A fashionable bonnet hat with a gold buckle is part of the get-up of Madame Guillemet ( Saint Louis Art Museum ), while in Die Wienerin, Portrait Irma Brunner ( Musée d'Orsay , Paris) and in Méry Laurent with a black hat ( Musée des Beaux-Arts , Dijon) feathers are the decorative elements on the hat. At Jeanne Martin with a rose-adorned hat ( Menard Art Museum , Komaki), a lush flower arrangement is the eye-catcher on the hat. In all of the portraits of women, Manets shows his love for the sophisticated details of women's fashion of his time.

  • Woman with a maroon hat
    1882

  • Young girl in a summer hat
    around 1881

  • Madame Guillemet
    1880

  • The Viennese, portrait of Irma Brunner
    around 1880

  • Méry Laurent with a black hat
    1882

  • Jeanne Martin with a hat adorned with roses
    1881

Provenance

The first known owner of the picture was Manet's colleague Pierre-Auguste Renoir . He also owned a watercolor by Manet with a sea motif, which he had acquired from the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel after his death in 1884 . It is possible that the pastel woman with black hat came into Renoir's possession after Manet's death. Since he himself had made some portraits of women as pastel pictures between 1874 and 1880, he saw the woman with a black hat as a suitable memento of his painter friend. The picture later came into the possession of the collection of Leo M. Rogers and his wife in New York City via the Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard . When their collection was auctioned on June 27, 1972 in the New York branch of Christie's auction house , the painting went to an unknown collector in Great Britain for US $ 116,235. Later the picture came into the possession of the doctor Gustav Rau. He bequeathed his art collection to the UNICEF children's aid organization and decreed that it should first be exhibited in public and then auctioned off in favor of UNICEF. While parts of the collection have already been sold, the core holdings of the collection, which also includes Manet's wife with a black hat , can be seen in the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen until 2026.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ German title Woman with a black hat according to the information on the website of the Rau Collection for UNICEF
  2. ↑ Head of a woman with a black hat in Sandra Orienti: Edouard Manet , Vol. II, p. 76.
  3. ^ French title in Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein: Edouard Manet: Catalog raisonné , Vol. II, p. 34.
  4. ↑ There are different details about the carrier material. Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein speak of canvas: Edouard Manet: Catalog raisonné , vol. II, p. 34 and Sandra Orienti: Edouard Manet , vol. II, p. 76; Gerhard Finckh names Karton: Edouard Manet , p. 280; On the website of the Rau Collection for UNICEF, paper is found as the image carrier.
  5. ↑ 1882 indicate: Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein: Edouard Manet: Catalog raisonné , vol. II, p. 34 and Sandra Orienti: Edouard Manet , vol. II, p. 76; around 1880 Anne Coffin calls Hanson: Édouard Manet. 1832-1883 , p. 190; around 1882 is the date in Ronald Pickvance: Manet , p. 248; in contrast, the dating 1879–1882 can be found in Gerhard Finckh: Edouard Manet , p. 280 and on the website of the Rau Collection for UNICEF.
  6. ↑ There are sometimes different sizes: 54 x 45 cm in Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein: Edouard Manet: Catalog raisonné , vol. II, p. 34; 50.8 x 44.2 cm in Sandra Orienti: Edouard Manet , Vol. II, p. 76.
  7. ↑ Ronald Pickvance: Manet , p. 248.
  8. ↑ Ronald Pickvance: Manet , p. 248.
  9. ↑ Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein: Edouard Manet: Catalog raisonné , Vol. 2, p. 34.
  10. ^ Gerhard Finckh: Edouard Manet , p. 280.