Young woman with cape
Young woman with cape , also Young Lady with cape , ( French Jeune femme à la pèlerine ) is a painting by the French painter Édouard Manet . The work, which was painted in oil on canvas in 1881, is 55 cm high and 35 cm wide. Portrayed is the future actress Jeanne Demarsy . The picture belongs to the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon .
Image description
The painting shows Jeanne Demarsy, around 16 years old, who a few years later was an actress on the Parisian theater. In Young Woman with a Pelerine he portrayed the still girlish woman as a portrait . Her upper body is turned a little to the right of the picture and her head can be seen in quarter profile. She looks directly at the viewer with her dark eyes. An unknown light source outside the picture shines on the right half of the face, so that the left side is partially in the shadow area. She has a fair complexion that is slightly pink under the eyes. The closed lips are painted a rich red. The hairstyle of the sitter leaves the ears uncovered. Her dark hair can be seen behind her right ear and in front of her forehead. Here, the slightly curled hair sometimes extends over the broad dark eyebrows. Jeanne Demarsy wears a round, dark hat with a narrow brim on which a small red and yellow appliqué is attached.
Mademoiselle Demarsy's dress is beige. The name of the picture is the shoulder cape ( cape ) that goes with the dress . A small collar closes the dress at the neck. A white material can be seen underneath, which may belong to a scarf or scarf. In front of the chest is a decorative floral arrangement with pink flowers and two green leaves. Underneath, Manet indicated a loop with broad, dark brown brushstrokes. While large parts of the picture are relatively finely worked out, this loop has remained remarkably sketchy. The background, which alternates between shades of blue, gray and beige, reminds the author Viola Hildebrand-Schat of the sky, which means that “the sitter appears large, almost monumental”, “although she is only shown as a half-figure”. The picture is signed on the right edge below the cape with "EM".
For the art historian Dominique Brachlianoff, Jeanne Demarsy shows a thoughtful and detached expression in this picture. For her, the sitter has a “slightly melancholy look”. The author Ina Conzen emphasizes the “gaze that happens to meet the beholder” “in this magical portrait”. In Manet's portrait, she sees a “sophisticated strolling woman” who represents the “brisk Parisian type”.
Classification in Manet's work
Manet portrayed Jeanne Demarsy in at least five pictures, all of which were probably made in 1881. These include the pastel paintings Girl with a Summer Hat , On the Bench and Young Woman on the Beach, as well as the oil paintings The Spring and Young Woman with a Pelerine . In the picture Der Frühling , Manet shows Jeanne Demarsy in profile in front of a lush backdrop of flowers. It is particularly detailed and was submitted by Manet to the Salon de Paris in 1882, where it received very good reviews. The buyer of the painting Spring was Manet's school friend Antonin Proust . The art historian Ronald Pickvance suspects that Manet might have met Jeanne Demarsy through him. But it is also possible that Manet made the acquaintance of Jeanne Demarsy through his painter colleague Pierre-Auguste Renoir , since both Renoir and Demarsy came from Limoges . As in Spring , Manet painted Mademoiselle Demarsy in profile in On the Bench . In both pictures she looks much more ladylike than in Young Woman with a Pelerine , where she has more the facial features of a girl. What is striking is the - apart from the color - almost identical clothing in the pictures On the bench and Young woman with cape . The cut of the dress, the cape and the bow in front of the chest are the same in the two portraits. Manet seems to have been satisfied with his work on the picture Young Woman with a Pelerine , which is not only indicated by the signature that Manet usually only applied to finished works. He took up the image again in his last major work, Eine Bar in den Folies-Bergère , and inserted the figure from Young Woman with a Pelerine into the audience in the background.
Édouard Manet:
On the bench , 1881
Édouard Manet:
The Spring , 1881
Édouard Manet:
A bar in the Folies-Bergère (detail), 1881
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The portrait of Jeanne Demarsy in Young Woman with a Pelerine is one of a whole series of portraits of women that Manet created in the last years of his life. He executed many of them as pastels, some like Young Woman with Cap in oil on canvas. For these portraits he often chose the format of the bust. The women in these pictures were not professional models that Manet rejected because of their lack of naturalness. Instead, he asked women from his circle of friends and acquaintances into his studio. This included respected people such as Jeanne Guillemet ( Madame Guillemet , Saint Louis Art Museum ), the owner of an elegant fashion store, or Jeanne Martin ( portrait of Jeanne Martin with roses on her hat , Menard Art Museum , Komaki), the friend of the painter Jean-Louis Forain . But Manet also portrayed half-world ladies like Méry Laurent ( Méry Laurent with a small hat , Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute , Williamstown), who gained a dubious reputation primarily because of their relationships with wealthy men. These female portraits usually have in common a special attention to detail in the fashionable props. In these pictures, Manet did not paint portraits of those portrayed, but tried to capture the typical Parisian woman of his time in her elegant presentation.
Édouard Manet:
Portrait of Jeanne Martin with roses on her hat , 1881
Édouard Manet:
Méry Laurent with a small hat , 1882
Édouard Manet:
Madame Guillemet , 1880
Provenance
The painting was in his possession until Manet's death. At Manet's estate auction on February 4 and 5, 1884 at the Hôtel Drouot auction house , it came up for auction as number 22 and went to the painter Pierre Eugène Grandsire for 550 francs . Then the picture came into the possession of the art collector Comte Armand Doria . It was bought by the department store owner Ernest Cognacq at the auction of the Doria collection on May 4 and 5, 1899 in the gallery of Georges Petit (lot number 188) . Together with his wife, he bequeathed most of his art collection to the city of Paris, which is now exhibited in the Musée Cognacq-Jay . The painting Young woman with cape , which his nephew Gabriel Cognacq inherited, did not belong to this foundation . He loaned the picture to the Venice Biennale art exhibition in 1934 . After Gabriel Cognacq's death, his art collection ( young woman with cape as lot number 44) was auctioned on May 14, 1952 in the Charpentier gallery. The next owner was the diamond dealer and art collector Myran Eknayan , who lived in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine . After his death, he bequeathed his art collection to the former actress Jacqueline Delubac , whom he had married only a few years earlier. Delubac eventually left the picture to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, where it is exhibited along with other works from the Eknayan collection and pictures from her own art collection.
literature
- Dominique Brachlianoff, Christian Briend: De Manet à Bacon, la collection Jacqueline Delubac . Réunion des musées nationaux Paris and Musée des Beaux-Arts Lyon 1998, ISBN 2-7118-3678-9 .
- Ina Conzen: Edouard Manet and the Impressionists . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002, ISBN 3-7757-1201-1 .
- Julius Meier-Graefe : Edouard Manet . Piper, Munich 1912.
- Hamburger Kunsthalle (ed.): Manet - Seeing: The view of modernity . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0325-3 .
- Sandra Orienti: The painted work of Edouard Manet. German Book Association, Stuttgart 1972.
- Ronald Pickvance : Manet . Exhibition catalog Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny 1996, ISBN 2-88443-037-7 .
- Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein : Edouard Manet: Catalog raisonné . Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris and Lausanne 1975.
- Maryanne Stevens: Manet, portraying life . Royal Academy of Arts, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-905711-74-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ina Conzen: Edouard Manet and the Impressionists , p. 240.7
- ↑ Hamburger Kunsthalle (ed.): Manet - See: Der Blick der Moderne , pp. 164–165.
- ↑ Viola Hildebrand-Schat: Portraits of women in the Hamburger Kunsthalle (ed.): Manet - See: Der Blick der Moderne , p. 165.
- ↑ Original texts "Si l'expression songeuse et lointaine de la jeune femme" and "la légère mélancholie du regard" in Dominique Brachlianoff, Christian Briend: De Manet à Bacon, la collection Jacqueline Delubac , p. 36.
- ↑ Ina Conzen: Edouard Manet and the Impressionists , pp. 133-134.
- ↑ An exact dating of the pictures is not possible because Manet did not keep a model book. Pickvance assumes that all pictures by Jeanne Demarsy are from 1881. See Ronald Pickvance: Manet , p. 238. In some cases, the authors give different dates for the pictures. For example, the pictures On the bench and girls with a summer hat also have the year 1878 (both in Orienti, pages 108-109) and for girls with a summer hat the year 1879 (Maryanne Stevens, p. 200.)
- ↑ Ronald Pickvance: Manet , p. 238.
- ^ Julius Meier-Graefe: Edouard Manet , p. 320.
- ↑ Dominique Brachlianoff, Christian Briend: De Manet à Bacon, la collection Jacqueline Delubac , S. 240th