A Studio in Batignolles Quarter by Henri Fantin-Latour
In his group portrait, A Studio in Batignolles Quarter (1870), Henri Fantin-Latour honored Manet's influence on a new generation of artists. Edouard Manet, seated at his easel, is painting a portrait of the artist and critic Zacharie Astruc. The tall figure standing behind Astruc's chair is Frederic Bazille; Claude Monet can be seen at the far right behind him. Pierre-Auguste Renoir stands in the center, and the critic Émile Zola is to his immediate left.
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Debra N. Mancoff is an art historian and lecturer and the author of numerous books on nineteenth-century European and American paintings. She is a scholar in residence at the Newberry Library.
