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"Lola de Valence, 1862" №23867
Art. number: 23867
Description
Manet's espagnolisme reached fever pitch in the 1860s; any subject was good so long as it was Spanish. Rejected by the Salon, and laid out in a shed, Manet's output of the decade astonished Gustave Courbet: "So many Spaniards!" he exclaimed. When a Spanish ballet troupe came to Paris, Manet was quick to paint Lola de Valence, posing her in the same position as Duchess of Alba of Francisco Goya. Her magnificent costume, glittering with a thousand spangles, made an ideal subject for him. He loved to make his splashes of colour chime one against another, and sought to restore black as a colour in its own right.
Niggardly with his praise, Baudelaire nonetheless celebrated his friend's first masterpiece in a notoriously erotic quatrain, which contributed no little to Manet's sulphurous reputation:
"My friends, among so many beauties,
Desire, I conceive, may hesitate;
But in Lola de Valence see scintillate
Surprise! A charming jewel of black and pink."
Baudelaire wanted to expand his collaboration with Manet to ask for the inscription of "these verses at the bottom of the portrait, either with the brush, in the paste, or on the frame in black letters". Finally, as evidenced by the exhibition of the painting in 1863, a cartouche in which the quatrain was read was attached to the frame. The Musée d'Orsay mentions that the quatrain appears on a cartel and not on the frame, as Baudelaire wanted.
Reproduction is a high-quality eco-ink printing on an Italian canvas. For smaller sizes, the image is wrapped on a hard back, and at the larger ones - stretched on a subframe. You get it arranged with a suitable frame.
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