DOI Heft:
No. 94 (January, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Proust, Antonin: The art of Edouard Manet
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19786#0256
Edonard Manet
brush ; then, after having tried to render the bright common gift, and his artistically-inclined uncle,
portions in a single tone, he brought the light right Colonel Fournier supported him against his father,
up to the shadow, the minutest nuances of which who—despite his admiration—had other views as
he studied with the greatest care. to his son's career.
Had Manet's experiments been made within the " One should never thwart a child in the choice
four walls of a studio, no one would have thought of his career," said Colonel Fournier.
much about them, but he often did his drawings "If," replied the father (whose family had for
and paintings outside, and his blonde silhouette generations been in the magistracy), "the boy is
soon became known in the Place Pigalle quarter. not inclined towards the 'Palais,' let him follow
Moreover, Baudelaire, who was then doing art your example, and become a soldier; but go in for
criticism, and was at once fascinated by Manet's painting—never!"
theories, talked of him, not only privately, but Eventually matters were compromised by
publicly in his articles, as an innovator. Edouard Manet consenting to go to the Borda
Nowadays one has forgotten Manet's brilliant school to study for a sailor's life, and shortly after
and resounding start. Almost all of those who he embarked at Bordeaux for Rio de Janeiro as an
witnessed it have disappeared, and the survivors— apprentice. The life had no charms for Manet, and
human-like—forgetting their youthful past, remem- on his return, the father, strongly urged by Colonel
ber only those who interested them personally at Fournier, let the lad go to study under Couture,
that particular period. Some there are, however, When he quitted Couture's studio in 1856,
who remember that Manet, from his earliest years, crowned with the aureole of a revolutionary in
drew by instinct, with a firmness of touch and a art, he was in no hurry to exhibit,
vigour unexcelled even in his latest works. " Before doing anything else," said he, " I must
His family was intensely proud of the boy's un- go and leave my card upon my great ancestors
"LES CANOTIERS" BY EDOUARD MANET
228
brush ; then, after having tried to render the bright common gift, and his artistically-inclined uncle,
portions in a single tone, he brought the light right Colonel Fournier supported him against his father,
up to the shadow, the minutest nuances of which who—despite his admiration—had other views as
he studied with the greatest care. to his son's career.
Had Manet's experiments been made within the " One should never thwart a child in the choice
four walls of a studio, no one would have thought of his career," said Colonel Fournier.
much about them, but he often did his drawings "If," replied the father (whose family had for
and paintings outside, and his blonde silhouette generations been in the magistracy), "the boy is
soon became known in the Place Pigalle quarter. not inclined towards the 'Palais,' let him follow
Moreover, Baudelaire, who was then doing art your example, and become a soldier; but go in for
criticism, and was at once fascinated by Manet's painting—never!"
theories, talked of him, not only privately, but Eventually matters were compromised by
publicly in his articles, as an innovator. Edouard Manet consenting to go to the Borda
Nowadays one has forgotten Manet's brilliant school to study for a sailor's life, and shortly after
and resounding start. Almost all of those who he embarked at Bordeaux for Rio de Janeiro as an
witnessed it have disappeared, and the survivors— apprentice. The life had no charms for Manet, and
human-like—forgetting their youthful past, remem- on his return, the father, strongly urged by Colonel
ber only those who interested them personally at Fournier, let the lad go to study under Couture,
that particular period. Some there are, however, When he quitted Couture's studio in 1856,
who remember that Manet, from his earliest years, crowned with the aureole of a revolutionary in
drew by instinct, with a firmness of touch and a art, he was in no hurry to exhibit,
vigour unexcelled even in his latest works. " Before doing anything else," said he, " I must
His family was intensely proud of the boy's un- go and leave my card upon my great ancestors
"LES CANOTIERS" BY EDOUARD MANET
228