03 — ARTWORK
Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 cm
- TYPE
- Portrait
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 1214 × 900 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) was a French poet who - with Paul Verlaine - was a founder and leader of the Symbolist movement. Most of his verse expresses an intellectual longing to transcend reality and find refuge in an ideal world, as in the dramatic poem L'Après-midi d'un faune (1876; The Afternoon of a FaunAncient Roman god of nature, protector of shepherds, farmers, fields and livestock. Equated with the Greek god Pan, he is frequently depicted with a goats legs and horns.), which inspired Claude Debussy's famous prelude,
Manet probably met the poet at the salonIn the French language of the 18th and 19th centuries it designated an actual exhibition space, as well as the academic art exhibitions staged in the Salon d'Apollon of the Louvre since 1667. From 1737, the exhibitions took place biennially and, after the French Revolution, annually in the Salon Carré of the Louvre in Paris. Towards the end of the 19th century the official Salon jury was dissolved in order to make way for a committee of state-approved artists, i.e. former Salon members, who created the highly influential Société des Artistes Français. of Nina de Callias. They were both entranced, and their friendship immediately became a close one.
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title = {Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé by MANET, Edouard},
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date = {2026-09-09},
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