Portrait of Madame Brunet

Portrait of Madame Brunet is an oil painting on canvas by Édouard Manet, begun in 1861 and completed in 1863. Its subject is Caroline de Pène, the wife of the sculptor Eugène Cyrille Brunet. According to Duret she was not beautiful and – although Manet flattered her – she burst into tears when she first saw the painting. It originally depicted the sitter full-length, but by 1867 Manet had cut away the bottom section.

The tonality of the painting, with its emphasis on black, shows the influence of Spanish art, and Diego Velázquez in particular. Velázquez's Philip IV as a Hunter has been suggested as a likely inspiration for the landscape background.

The painting was acquired from the private Payne-Whitney collection in New York (largely built up by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney) by the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, in 2011.

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