1890
oil
canvas
From the collection of Kimbell Art Museum
Dominant colour
Portrait of Georges Clemenceau is a 1890 oil by Edouard Manet, a Impressionism work, depicting Toulouse, held at Kimbell Art Museum.
This painting is a portrait of Georges Clemenceau. It was made by Édouard Manet in 1879. The subject of the painting, Georges Clemenceau, was a French statesman. He is depicted in a work that is now held at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. You can learn more about the artist who created this portrait by looking up Édouard Manet.
Portrait of Clemenceau is an 1879-1880 painting by Édouard Manet of the French statesman Georges Clemenceau in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Manet's youngest brother Gustave was a municipal councillor in Paris and it may have been through his mediation that Manet met Clemenceau. Alternatively, the pair may have met at the home of Paul Meurice or Émile Zola. The portrait was produced at the tribune of the Jardin du Luxembourg, where the city council was sitting; it is sometimes entitled Portrait of Clemenceau at the Tribune. Less realist than the later work of the same title, it…
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Édouard Manet didn’t have much time to make his mark—he died at 51—but he used every year.
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