Detail of the Madonna of the Rabbit after Titian by Manet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2023

Title: The Madonna of the Rabbit, after Titian

Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)

Artist: after Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice)

Date: ca. 1850–60

Geography: Country of Origin France

Culture: French

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27 9/16 × 33 1/16 in. (70 × 84 cm)
Frame: 35 13/16 × 41 5/16 in. (91 × 105 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Peintures (RF 2017 7)


This is one of several copies Manet made of celebrated paintings in the Louvre. The idyllic landscape setting of Titian’s painting (ca. 1530) draws inspiration from the Arcadian settings of classical poetry. Manet would return to the idea of figures at leisure on a shady lawn in a woodland clearing in his Déjeuner sur l’herbe, which he exhibited in 1863 at the Salon des Refusés (an exhibition of art rejected by the official Salon).


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/845078