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édouard Manet (French 1832-1883) LE CHAT ET LES FLEURS signed in the plate etching and aquatint sheet size: 32,2 by 21,4cm MANET ‘LES CHATS ET LES FLEURS’ Edouard Manet is considered a significant forerunner of the Impressionist movement. After travelling to Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands between 1853 and 1856, he opened a studio and began producing work inspired by the artists he discovered on his travels. These included the Dutch painter Frans Hals and Spanish artists Diego Velazquez and Francisco de Goya.1 Unsurprisingly, Le Chat et les Fleurs deliberately suggests of one of Manet’s favourite masters, Goya, evidenced in the strong line style, gloomy tones, and stippled aquatint background. Although predominantly known as a painter, Manet produced a series of illustrations of cats for Jules Champfleury’s book entitled Les Chats. Le Chat et les Fleurs (Cat and Flowers) echoes the cat and flower imagery in Manet’s Olympia, one of his most well-known paintings. Champfleury’s book represents some of Manet’s finest illustrative work which was then reproduced posthumously using the original plates in three strikes, after which the plates were destroyed to make reproduction impossible.2Le Chat et les Fleurs is one of Manet’s finest prints, the sharp lines contrasting with a dappled and tonally accurate background. The side profile of the cat in the foreground allows the viewer to differentiate between the finer details of the work. - T.W.1. "Edouard Manet as an Illustrator." Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 62, no. 293 (1967): 223-35. Accessed January 10, 2020. doi:10.2307/3795194. 1. Harris, Jean C. "Prints by Manet." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 49, no. 3/4 (1970): 47-62. Accessed January 10, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/41504479.