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Edouard Manet
The Conservatory
1879
Oil on canvas
45x59in
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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Manet preferred compositions with two figures as opposed to the straightforward portrait form because it opened up the possibility of interesting dialogue situations. The double portrait of Jules Guillemet and his wife, painted in the conservatory of the painter Johann Georges Otto Rosen, is one of the most important of these works because of the sensitivity with which it uses the most delicate nuances of colours and contrasts to describe and re-connect the psychologically tense, only outwardly detached, relationship of the two figures.
The theme of the picture is the interplay between the elegant lady (the owner of a fashion shop in Paris) and the gentlemen turned in her direction. He seems rather small due to the way he is bending over and brushes against the upper edge of the picture, while the feminine beauty with the effortless noblesse of her extended posture occupies a large part of the picture space. Despite their being separated by the back of the seat, with its own graphic appeal by virtue of its transparency, the understated focal point of this rich conservatory scene with all its plant forms and subtle colours is the hands approaching each other.
Gandalf’s Gallery

Edouard Manet

The Conservatory

1879

Oil on canvas

45x59in

Nationalgalerie, Berlin

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Manet preferred compositions with two figures as opposed to the straightforward portrait form because it opened up the possibility of interesting dialogue situations. The double portrait of Jules Guillemet and his wife, painted in the conservatory of the painter Johann Georges Otto Rosen, is one of the most important of these works because of the sensitivity with which it uses the most delicate nuances of colours and contrasts to describe and re-connect the psychologically tense, only outwardly detached, relationship of the two figures.

The theme of the picture is the interplay between the elegant lady (the owner of a fashion shop in Paris) and the gentlemen turned in her direction. He seems rather small due to the way he is bending over and brushes against the upper edge of the picture, while the feminine beauty with the effortless noblesse of her extended posture occupies a large part of the picture space. Despite their being separated by the back of the seat, with its own graphic appeal by virtue of its transparency, the understated focal point of this rich conservatory scene with all its plant forms and subtle colours is the hands approaching each other.

Gandalf’s Gallery

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