Portrait d'Albert Wolff

1877

Édouard Manet1832 Paris – 1883 Paris
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Albert Wolff (1835-1891) was an art critic, writer and editor of the 'Figaro', as influential as he was sharp. The sketchily unfinished state of the painting - and precisely because of this invoking the impression of spontaneous liveliness - can be explained by the fact that Wolff, allegedly because of a migraine, did not follow Manet's request for another portrait session, to which he was to put on his blue veston with velvet crosses and maroon trousers. With this portrait, Manet had hoped to turn the critic's less than favorable judgment of the Impressionists' art into a positive one.
Also known as
Bildnis Albert Wolff Portrait of Albert Wolff
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 92 x 73 cm
Inventory number
1997/0008
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by the family of Hugo Cassirer (1869-1920), 1997