Lola de Valence Etching by Manet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2023

Title: Lola de Valence

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

Publisher: Cadart & Luquet (French, active 1863–67)

Printer: Auguste Delâtre (French, Paris 1822–1907 Paris)

Date: 1863

Medium: Etching and aquatint with roulette; sixth state of eight

Dimensions: plate: 10 3/8 x 7 1/8 in. (26.4 x 18.1 cm)
sheet: 15 9/16 x 11 5/8in. (39.5 x 29.5cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1918

Accession Number: 18.88.28

Manet exhibited an impression of this etching at the Salon des Refusés in May 1863. It reproduces Lola de Valence, on view in the next gallery, preserving the neutral background of the painting as it initially appeared. Later that year, he published the work as part of Eaux-fortes modernes (Modern Etchings), a series distributed to subscribers by the Société des Aquafortistes (Society of Etchers). Manet was a founding member of the group, which was established in 1862 by the art dealer and publisher Alfred Cadart in collaboration with the printer Auguste Delâtre to further interest in etching among artists, critics, collectors, and the general public.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337576