Édouard Manet - Portrait of George Moore 1879
Portrait of George Moore 1879
55x35cm pastel/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
This pastel, executed in one sitting, depicts the Irish critic and novelist George Moore. He used it as the frontispiece for his book Modern Painting (1893), noting that as "a fresh-complexioned, fair-haired young man, the type most suitable to Manet's palette, [the artist] at once asked [him] to sit." Critics ridiculed this work when it was exhibited in 1880, calling it "Le Noyé repêché" (the drowned man fished out of the water).