ID: 700008559 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008559	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Portrait of Madame Brunet (painting (visual work); Édouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883); about 1861/1863, reworked by 1...; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 2011.53;)

Note: This portrait's bold brushwork, stark contrasts of light and dark, and frank presentation of the sitter reflect Manet's early passion for seventeenth-century Spanish painting. Madame Brunet, the wife of a friend, rejected the painting on account of its perceived ugliness however, and the artist retained it in his studio. He eventually cut off the bottom portion of the canvas, reducing it to a three-quarter-length portrait, and displayed it in his one-man exhibition in Paris in 1867--a show of independence opposite the World's Fair, where more polished examples of society portraiture could be seen. Probably the sitter is Caroline Brunet, wife of French sculptor Euène Brunet, whom Manet had known at least since 1857. Although her identity as the subject of this painting remains uncertain, she is considered the most likely among several possibilities.

Titles:

Portrait of Madame Brunet (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,A)

Young Woman in 1860 (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Portrait of Mme Brunet (C,U,PB,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1861/1863, reworked by 1867

Creator Display:

Édouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883) [preferred,VP]

painter Manet, Edouard (French painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1832-1883) [500010363]

Locations:

Other: Creation: France [1000070] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2011.53

Address Note: Currently on view at: Getty Center, Museum West Pavilion, Gallery W203

Display Materials: Oil on canvas; cut down in height by the artist

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 132.4 × 100 cm (52 1/8 × 39 3/8 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Brunet, Caroline de Pène (French woman, born 1837) [500353537]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	three-quarter-length figure [300404829]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

	full-length figure [300343592]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Signed lower center left, "Manet"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Portrait of Madame Brunet	........ [VP,JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
Young Woman in 1860	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
Portrait of Mme Brunet	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP,JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
	..... Getty Vocabulary Program rules