Henry M. Sayre - Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade

Henry M. Sayre

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Published 2022

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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80982-3 (cloth)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80996-0 (e-book)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226809960.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sayre, Henry M., 1948 author.

Title: Value in art : Manet and the slave trade / Henry M. Sayre.

Other titles: Manet and the slave trade

Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: lccn 2021009478 | isbn 9780226809823 (cloth) | isbn 9780226809960 (ebook)

Subjects: lcsh: Manet, douard, 18321883. Olympia. | Art and societyFranceHistory19th century. | Blacks in art. | SlaveryUnited StatesForeign public opinion. | ArtPolitical aspectsFrance. | Art and literatureFrance. | FranceCivilizationAmerican influences. | FranceIntellectual life19th century.

Classification: LCC ND553.M3 A75 2021 | DDC 759.4dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009478

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For Sandy Brooke

douard Manet, mile Zola(1868)

douard Manet , Olympia(1863)

douard Manet, Le djeuner sur lherbe( Luncheon on the Grass) (1863)

Marcantonio Raimondi (after Raphael), The Judgment of Paris(ca. 15101530)

Anon., The Judgment of Paris(after Marcantonio Raimondi) (ca. 15751600)

Thomas Couture, The Romans during the Decadence of the Empire(1847)

Titian, Le fte champtre(ca. 15101511)

Titian, Venus of Urbino(1538)

douard Manet, Portrait of the Poet Zacharie Astruc(1866)

Cham, Inconvnient de ne pas bien fermer ses fentres (1852)

Flix Nadar, Mais voil quil se met pleuvoir des oncles Tom (1852)

Henri Duff Linton (after Franois-Auguste Biard), La chasse aux esclaves fugitifs(Salon of 1861)

Hammatt Billings, headpiece illustration for Uncle Toms Cabin(1853)

Paul Czanne, A Modern Olympia(18731874)