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Exhibition Review
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today. Wallach Art Gallery, New York; and The Black Model from Géricault to Matisse. Musée d’Orsay, Paris
07/2019 | 1396 | 161
Pages: 591-594
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Reviewer:
Pullins, David (Pullins, David)
Subjects
artists:
Manet, Edouard / Matisse, Henri / Bazille, Frédéric / Beardon, Romare / Géricault, Théodore / Chassériau, Théodore / Benoist, Marie-Guillemine / Verdier, Marcel
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Columbia University, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, United States / Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
subjects:
Models (people) / Modernism / Feminism / Race / Colonialism / Exoticism / Slavery / Social history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Jeanne Duval, also known as Woman with a fan and Baudelaire’s mistress reclining, by Édouard Manet. 1862. Canvas, 89.5 by 113 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts Budapest; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
17. Portrait of Madeleine, also known as Portrait of a Black woman and Portrait of a negress, by Marie-Guillemine Benoist. Canvas, 81 by 65 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
18. Study of the model Joseph, by Théodore Chassériau. 1839. Canvas, 54.8 by 73.5 cm. (Musée Ingres, Montauban; exh. Musée d’Orsay, Paris).