Portrait of Émile Zola is a painting of Émile Zola by Édouard Manet. Manet submitted the portrait to the 1868 Salon.
At this time Zola was known for his art criticism, and perhaps particularly as the writer of the novel Thérèse Raquin. This told the story of an adulterous affair between Thérèse, the wife of a clerk in a railway company, and a would-be painter named Laurent, whose work, rather like that of Zola's friend Paul Cézanne, is denigrated by the critics.[1] In the eleventh chapter the milieu of Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe is evoked, in the murder scene, where Camille, the husband, goes out for the day with his wife and her lover to Saint-Ouen.
On the wall is a reproduction of Manet's Olympia, a controversial painting at the 1865 Salon but which Zola considered Manet's best work. "Behind it is an engraving from Velazquez's Bacchus indicating the taste for Spanish art shared by the painter and the writer. A Japanese print of a wrestler by Utagawa Kuniaki II completes the décor." A Japanese screen on the left of the picture recalls the role that the Far East played in revolutionizing ideas on perspective and colour in European painting.[2]
have been lost, however some are in the possession of museums: Self-portrait (1876), Boston Museum of Fine Arts Orientalist scene with hookah smoker, 1876...
ÉmileZola praised the technical execution, but then called it "an anti-artistic painting, painting as neat as glass, bourgeois painting, because of the...
friends Eugène Boch and Paul-Eugène Milliet. The portraitof Eugène Boch is called The Poet and the portraitof Paul Eugène Milliet is called The Lover. In...
writer ÉmileZola (bearded with eyeglasses in his hand), Edmond Maître, Frédéric Bazille (in profile), and Claude Monet. It is known a portraitof Zacharie...
the year when Shepherds Find Zenobia on the Banks of the Araxes won the consolation second prize of the year. "Musée d'Orsay: William Bouguereau Dante...
commissioned in 1882 by the merchant Paul Durand-Ruel who wanted works on the theme of the ball. He bought it in 1886, exhibited it for the first time in April 1883...
rejected by the jury of the Salon of 1866. Outraged by the jury's decision, ÉmileZola, an early champion of Manet's art, published a series of articles in the...
field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society;...
Paris Salon of 1847, a year before the 1848 Revolution which toppled the July Monarchy. Reminiscent of the style of Raphael, it is typical of the French...
Fantin-Latour, and Alphonse Legros. Édouard Manet, PortraitofÉmileZola, 1868, Musée d'Orsay. ÉmileZola (1840-1902) was an influential French writer, and...
The Princess from the Land of Porcelain, 1863–1865 Édouard Manet, PortraitofÉmileZola, 1868 Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, The Japanese Fan, c. 1865 Alfred...
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