Edouard Manet's 'View at place Clichy'

• Autores: Malcolm Park
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 153, Nº 1298, 2011, págs. 326-328
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The write identifies the specific locale represented in Edouard Manet's painting View at place Clichy. The work shows part of the street-front at the northeast sector of Place Clichy in Paris as seen from a building at its southwest sector. With its evident immediacy of technique, there is every reason to assume that it was painted directly from the motif as a work in its own right and not as a study, but with the scene isolated from the broader context of place Clichy, such assessments may, literally, not present the whole picture. The expansive horizontal vista available from the viewpoint was truncated to the narrow “slice” of the painting's vertical image. This narrow image may well have been conceived and painted directly from the motif, but the way in which the view is set just to the left of the Maréchal Moncey monument also raises the possibility that it derived from the wider view of a photograph centered on the monument itself or was the outcome of a fragment cut from a larger canvas.