| La Négresse | |
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| Artist | Édouard Manet |
| Year | 1862 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 61 cm × 50 cm (24 in × 20 in) |
| Location | Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli,Turin |
La Négresse is an 1862 oil on canvas painting byÉdouard Manet, now in thePinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli inTurin.
The name of the model for the work isLaure, the black woman holding a bunch of flowers in the same artist'sOlympia.[1] The work is still linked with the "black beauties of Baudelaire"[2] in reference to his mistress Jeanne Duval, although Duval wasmixed-race rather than black.[3] Baudelaire and Manet became close friends, during which time he produced a portrait of Duval in 1862, entitledBaudelaire's Mistress. The poet was often in the painter's studio.[4]
La Négresse is mentioned in Manet's posthumous inventory in 1883 under number 46 and was owned by Éva Gonzalès-Guérard, then Auguste Pellerin, then Alexandre Louis Philippe Berthier, prince of Wagram. In 1913 it belonged toBaron Herzog inBudapest, from whom it was looted by Nazi troops.[5] The work passed through Berlin andHonolulu between 1933 and 1959, before entering its present home. It appeared in volume 1 of the 1975 Rouart-Wilderstein catalogue under the reference number RW 68.[6]
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