"Portrait of Alphonse Maureau" by Édouard Manet (1878/79)
Pastel on canvas, prepared with an off-white ground.
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"Portrait of Alphonse Maureau" by Édouard Manet (1878/79) invites a close look at how form and feeling work together.
Themes to notice include pastel.
This piece is held in the source collection's Prints and Drawings collection.
Édouard Manet is the artist behind this work.
A useful anchor for reading the piece: Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883.
The work is cataloged within a France cultural context.
How to look at this work:
It is cataloged as pastel, which gives a clue to how the museum frames the object.
Its medium (Pastel on canvas, prepared with an off-white ground) affects texture, durability, and how detail reads at different distances.
Its listed dimensions (54.7 × 45.2 cm (21 9/16 × 17 13/16 in.)) suggest how intimate or monumental it may feel in person.
Subject cues from the catalog include pastel.
Compare this reading with the museum record at the source collection: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/90258
Sources: Art Institute of Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago / Public Records; Art Institute of Chicago Collection Data
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