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Dead Eagle Owl (French: Le Grand-duc) is an 1881 oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet. One of the very few hunting still lifes in Manet's oeuvre, it depicts a dead Eurasian eagle-owl hanging upside down on a board as a hunting trophy. Dead Eagle Owl is one of a series of comparable still lifes that Manet painted in the same year in Versailles, during his recuperation from a serious illness. There are precedents for this morbid work in French still-life painting of the 18th century and Dutch still-life painting of the 17th century (i.e. Chardin and Weenix). The painting is in the collection of the Foundation E.G. Bührle in Zürich.

Dead Eagle Owl
Year	1881
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	97 cm × 64 cm (38 in × 25 in)
Location	Foundation E.G. Buhrle, Zurich

Description

The motif of the 97 × 64 cm painting is an eagle owl hanging upside down on a wooden wall. A nail can be seen between the dead animal's feet, on which the knotted ends of a small rope are attached. This rope was probably used to tie the legs together and hang the animal on a nail. The hanging hunting trophy is turned to the left so that the viewer sees almost exclusively the right side of the animal. Only the right eye of the owl is visible and the right wing largely covers the left. Although Manet's depiction of the hunting trophy in this painting is "extremely picturesque-«impressionistic»", he clearly shows the different feathering of the individual parts of the body. The feathering of the head, the trunk, the legs and the wings are distinguished from each other by their shape, colour, pattern and brushstrokes.[1]

The dead bird is not positioned exactly in the center of the picture, but occupies the top three-fifths of the picture. The bottom two-fifths of the image are reserved for the exclusive depiction of the wood grain. To the left of the bird, the grain of the wooden wall can also be clearly seen, while the area to the right of the body is partially covered by the animal's wings and behind it a kind of shadow effect is painted. A light source beyond the upper left edge of the picture can be assumed from this indicated shadow. Both the positioning of the eagle owl in the upper part of the picture and the vertical format of the painting reinforce the impression that the animal is hanging up. Due to the lack of any spatial surroundings, the picture can be assigned to the trompe-l'oeil painting that has been popular with still lifes since Jacopo de' Barbari. The signature 'Manet' is in the lower right corner of the picture.[2]

The painter used brown tones and black almost exclusively in the painting for the representation of the animal as well as for that of the wood. While the owl is mainly created in short brush strokes and dabs of color, the horizontal wooden boards are rendered by an elongated brushwork whose wave-like movement underlines the wood grain. Manet's lively painting style stands in contrast to the subject of a dead animal. The art historian Ina Conzen describes Manet's style of painting as follows: "As a modern variant of a hunting still life, the motif appears ... sober and matter-of-fact, devoid of any rhetoric. As a painting, the sensuous exploitation of the material qualities of the things – the feathery, violent characterization of the oppressed creature and the accentuated grain of the plank wall – have a direct, eloquent effect.”[3]

References

• Hans Jucker, Theodor Müller, Eduard Hüttinger: Sammlung Emil G. Bührle. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich 1958.
• George Mauner: Manet – the still life paintings. Harry N. Abrams, New York 2000, ISBN 0-8109-4391-3
  1. "Retracted: Emil Noldes Frauen im Blumengarten aus der Sammlung Eduard Müller", Provenienzforschung in deutschen Sammlungen, De Gruyter, pp. 85–90, 2019-10-08, retrieved 2022-04-01
  2. "Retracted: Emil Noldes Frauen im Blumengarten aus der Sammlung Eduard Müller", Provenienzforschung in deutschen Sammlungen, De Gruyter, pp. 85–90, 2019-10-08, retrieved 2022-04-01
  3. "„Une œuvre sincère par excellence"", Pro domo, Brill | Fink, pp. 131–153, 2021-09-20, retrieved 2022-04-01

На других языках

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[de] Toter Uhu

Toter Uhu[1] (französisch: Le Grand-duc)[2] ist der Titel eines Gemäldes des französischen Malers Édouard Manet. Das 97 × 64 cm große, in Öl auf Leinwand gemalte Bild zeigt einen toten, kopfüber an einer Bretterwand hängenden Uhu als Jagdtrophäe. Das zu einer Serie von vier nahezu gleich großen Stillleben gehörende Werk entstand 1881 während eines Kuraufenthaltes in Versailles, als Manet bereits von schwerer Krankheit gezeichnet war. Vorbilder für diese den Tod symbolisierende Jagdtrophäe finden sich in der französischen Stilllebenmalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts und bei niederländischen Malern des 17. Jahrhunderts. Toter Uhu ist eines der wenigen Jagdstillleben im Gesamtwerk des Künstlers. Das Gemälde gehört zur Sammlung der Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle in Zürich.

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- [en] Dead Eagle Owl

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[es] Búho real muerto

Búho real muerto (en francés: Le Grand-duc) es el título de un cuadro del pintor francés Édouard Manet. El cuadro de 97 × 64 cm, realizado en óleo sobre lienzo, muestra un búho real muerto que cuelga boca abajo en la pared de un tablero como trofeo de caza. La obra, que pertenece a una serie de cuatro bodegones de casi el mismo tamaño, fue pintada en 1881 durante una estancia en un balneario de Versalles, cuando Manet ya padecía de una grave enfermedad. Los modelos de este trofeo de caza que simboliza la muerte se encuentran en la pintura francesa de bodegones del siglo XVIII y en los pintores holandeses del siglo XVII. El Búho Real Muerto es uno de los pocos bodegones de caza de la obra del artista. El cuadro pertenece a la Fundación de la colección E. G. Bührle, Zürich

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[fr] Le Grand-duc

Le Grand-duc est une huile sur toile du peintre français Édouard Manet réalisée en 1881. Cette nature morte représente la charogne d'un grand-duc. Elle est conservée dans la collection Emil G. Bührle, à Zurich.

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