# Baudelaire's Mistress Reclining [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MANET, Edouard]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 90 x 113 cm ## Commentary Nowhere is the novelty of Manet's technique more apparent than in this strange portrait of the Creole woman, Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's "aging Infanta," painted in 1862 when she was sick and half-paralysed. Her hard, swarthy face contrasts with her immense striped crinoline, which is treated broadly, almost sketchily, and the delicate embroidery on the curtain hung over the windows of the Rue Guyot studio that Manet occupied at that time. ## Related artworks - [A Bar at the Folies-Bergère \(detail\)]() - [A Bar at the Folies-Bergère]() - [A Matador \(Matador Saluting\)]() - [Argenteuil]() - [At Longchamp Racecourse]() - [At Père Lathuille]() - [At the Café \(Bock Drinkers\)]() - [At the Café]() - [Baudelaire Bareheaded, Full Face]() - [Baudelaire with Hat, in Profile]() - [Bench in the Garden at Versailles]() - [Berthe Morisot with a Bunch of Violets]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()