The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of Portrait of Julien de la Rochenoire (1882), a pastel by Édouard Manet (1832–1883), one of the greatest late 19th-century French artists. This is the first pastel by Manet to enter the Getty Museum’s collection.
“Manet’s pastels are striking for their virtuoso technique, displaying all of the spontaneity and deftness one finds in his best paintings,” says Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. “While the Getty owns two of Manet’s celebrated paintings, this pastel—made informally for a friend—is a particularly intimate and personal work, offering the perfect complement to our other holdings of this great artist’s work.”
