Minneapolis Institute of Art

Double-sided Portrait of Mademoiselle Eva Gonzalès

Henri-Charles Guérard; After Édouard Manet

Date

1884

Medium

Etching and aquatint on both sides of a sheet of laid paper

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Henri-Charles Guérard played a significant role in the struggle to liberate original printmaking in the last twenty years of the nineteenth century. He began his career as a painter, but was soon drawn to intaglio. He was a talented etcher and supported himself through his activities as an illustrator and reproductive printmaker. Critics said little about his original work until his first solo exhibition at the Galeries Bernheim-Jeune in 1887 when the extent of his ability was displayed. Guérard was well known in print circles and was the only artist Edouard Manet trusted to print his plates. Guérard was a good friend of Manet’s and married his only student, Eva Gonzalès, in 1879. The proposed print is Guérard’s interpretation of Manet’s famous portrait of Gonzalès. France, Europe

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