Musée d’Orsay · 1870
A Studio at Les Batignolles
Henri Fantin-Latour
Fantin-Latour paints Édouard Manet at his easel, surrounded by the young painters and writers who gathered around him at the Café Guerbois — including Renoir, Monet, Bazille, and the novelist Émile Zola — presenting Manet as the acknowledged leader of a new generation.
Why it matters
Fantin-Latour paints Édouard Manet at his easel, surrounded by the young painters and writers who gathered around him at the Café Guerbois — including Renoir, Monet, Bazille, and the novelist Émile Zola — presenting Manet as the acknowledged leader of a new generation.
Look closer
Count how many now-famous names are crowded into this one room — this single painting captures an entire artistic movement before anyone outside their circle had heard of it.
Frédéric Bazille, shown here tall and clean-shaven near the back, was killed in battle just months after this was exhibited — making this one of the last images ever made of him.
Value context
ELYIO places this work in an indicative editorial context of €12–25 million.
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