Portrait of Faure as Hamlet

Portrait de Faure dans le rôle d'Hamlet

Portrait of Faure as Hamlet

Édouard Manet · 1877

Museum Folkwang

Essen, Germany

About this painting

Manet demanded nearly forty sittings from opera star Jean-Baptiste Faure over one winter, restarting the canvas nine times and destroying three earlier versions.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

194 × 132 cm (76.4 × 52 in)

Painted at

Paris, France

Current location

Museum Folkwang, Essen

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