Portrait of the Artist after Filippino Lippi by Manet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2023

Title: Portrait of the Artist, after Filippino Lippi

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

Date: ca. 1857

Geography: Country of Origin France

Culture: French

Medium: Oil on cradled panel

Dimensions: 16 1/8 × 12 5/8 in. (41 × 32 cm)
Framed: 21 5/16 × 18 1/4 × 2 3/16 in. (54.2 × 46.4 × 5.6 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF MO P 2020 3)

Both Manet and Degas seem to have been drawn to a striking self-portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Filippino Lippi. On his second visit to Florence, in 1857, Manet made this and several other copies of paintings at the Uffizi Gallery that he worked from when he returned to Paris. Degas curiously overlaid his own features in this drawing modeled after the same portrait.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/845044