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MANET & VELÁZQUEZ
Édouard Manet’s letters to his friend and fellow artist Fantin-Latour, and to his admired friend Charles Baudelaire …in which he expressed his feelings after his first meeting with Diego Velázquez’s art in the Spanish Museo del Prado (September 1, 1865).
* Excerpt: “At last, my dear Baudelaire, I’ve really come to know Velázquez, and I tell you he’s the greatest artist has ever been; I saw 30 or 40 of his canvases in Madrid, portraits and other things, all masterpieces; he’s greater tan his reputation and compensates all by himsef for the fatigue and problems that are inevitable on a journey in Spain.”
Source: ‘Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting’, p. 231.
Source: spanishbaroqueart
