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View of the 1867 Exposition Universelle
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Artist:
Édouard Manet
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Creation date:
(1867)
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Object type:
Painting
Not on display
About
The 1850s onwards witnessed an explosive growth in the number of so-called World’s Expositions (or World’s Fairs), and in 1867 France held the largest one yet. The exposition occupied the entire Champ de Mars in Paris, to where spectators thronged from the whole world. Édouard Manet was excluded from the exposition’s official art programme, and he therefore erected his own exhibition pavilion on a height on the right bank of the Seine, adjacent to Trocadero, from where one had a magnificent view of the exposition grounds.
Manet’s main interest in this painting, however, was not the world’s exposition itself, and it serves more as a backdrop for the scattered figures and groups of the foreground; among these figures we can identify Leon Koella Leenhoff, the son of Mme Manet, as the young boy walking a dog. Rather than presenting a unifying or overarching narrative, the painting illustrates the pulsating, fragmentary diversity of modern life in the city. Manet presumably used a number of individual studies when executing the painting, though any such studies seem to be lost now.
Manet chose to abandon the painting while it was still a sketch, as a more urgent event demanded his attention: the execution of the French-backed Emperor Maximilian in Mexico in June 1867. The painting was sold for a relatively modest sum (as it was unfinished) at the auction following Manet’s death. For a while it was owned by the prominent Manet collector Auguste Pellerin, before becoming available again on the Parisian market during the First World War, when it was acquired by the Norwegian shipowner Tryggve Sagen. The picture was subsequently purchased by the Friends of the National Gallery.
Text: Nils Messel
From "Highlights. Art from Antiquity to 1945", Nasjonalmuseet 2014, ISBN 978-82-8154-088-0
Artist/producer
Visual artist
Born 1832 in Paris, Frankrike, death 1883 in Paris, Frankrike
Work info
Creation date:
(1867)
Other titles:
Fra Verdensutstillingen i Paris i 1867 (NOR)
L'Exposition universelle, Paris 1867 (FRA)
Object type:
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Painting
Materials and techniques:
Olje på lerret
Material:
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Canvas
Dimensions:
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Height:
108 cm
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Depth:
2.5 cm
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Width:
196 cm
Keywords:
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Visual art
Classification:
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532 - Bildende kunst
Motif - type:
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City prospect
Acquisition:
Gave fra Nasjonalgalleriets Venner 1923
Inventory no.:
NG.M.01293
Part of exhibition:
Exhibition, 2007 - 2011
Édouard Manet. Utställning av hans arbeten i skandinavis ägo, 1922
Exposition Manet, 1832 - 1883, 1932
Livets dans. Samlingen fra antikken til 1950, 2011 - 2019
Édouard Manet. Utstilling av hans arbejder i skandinavisk eie, 1922
Édouard Manet. Utstilling av hans arbejder i skandinavisk eie i Nationalgalleriet, 1922
Ausstellung Edouard Manet 1832 - 1883: Gemalde, Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 1928
Exposition des oeuvres de Edouard Manet, 1884
Cataloguing level:
Single object
Owner and collection:
Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, The Fine Art Collections
Photo:
Børre Høstland
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