Portrait of Madame Brunet

Portrait of Madame Brunet is an 1861-1863 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, acquired from the private Payne-Whitney collection in New York (largely built up by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney) by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2011[1][2].

Its subject cannot be definitively identified, but may have been the wife of the sculptor Eugène Cyrille Brunet. According to Duret the she was not beautiful and - although Manet flattered her - she burst into tears when she first saw the painting[3]. Manet added a new bottom to the work later[3].

Title

When first exhibiting the work in 1867, Manet entitled it Portrait of Madame B.. At that exhibition Moreau-Nélaton referred to it as La Parisienne de 1862 (The Parisian Woman of 1862[4]). Tabarant stated its subject to be Madame Brunet, née Penne, and called the painting La Femme au gant (Woman with a Glove)[5]. In 1902, Théodore Duret retitled the work Jeune dame en 1860 (Young Woman in 1860)[6].

The work was mocked by the popular press[7] and refused by its subject, remaining in Manet's studio for a long time. It appears in the inventory of his works as number 14 with the title Woman with a Glove, Fashion of 1850, being retitled Young Woman of 1860 at the 1884 sale of his works[8]. Just after the sale, Durand-Ruel sold it to Jacques-Émile Blanche, who sold on the painting around 1930 to the galerie Knoedler in Paris. It was then acquired by Mrs Charles S. Payson née Joan Witney.

References
  1. http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/258736/edouard-manet-portrait-of-madame-brunet-french-1861-to-1863/
  2. acquisition 2011
  3. (Cachin, Moffett & Wilson-Bareau 1983, p. 53)
  4. (Moreau-Nélaton 1926, p. 44)
  5. (Tabarant 1947, p. 89)
  6. (Duret 1947, p. 240)
  7. (Cachin, Moffett & Wilson-Bareau 1983, p. 5)
  8. Rouart-Wildenstein 1975 tome I, p. 27

Bibliography
  • Timothy James Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999, 376 p. (ISBN 978-0691009032)
  • (in French) Françoise Cachin, Charles S. Moffett et Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Manet 1832–1883, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1983, 544 p. (ISBN 2-7118-0230-2)
  • (in French) Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, Gallimard, 1947, 600 p.
  • (in French) Adolphe Tabarant, Les Manet de la collection Havemeyer : La Renaissance de l'art français, Paris, 1930, XIII éd.
  • (in French) Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Manet raconté par lui-même, vol. 2, t. I, Paris, Henri Laurens, 1926
  • (in French) Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Manet raconté par lui-même, vol. 2, t. I, Paris, Henri Laurens, 1926
  • (in French) Henri Loyrette and Gary Tinterow, Impressionnisme : Les origines, 1859–1869, 476 p. (ISBN 978-2711828203)
  • (in French) Collectif RMN, Manet inventeur du moderne, Paris, 2011, 297 p. (ISBN 978-2-07-013323-9)
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