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Le Suicidé is a small oil painting by Édouard Manet, completed between 1877 and 1881.[1] The painting has been little studied within Manet's oeuvre, as art historians have had difficulty finding a place for the work within the development of Manet's art.[1]

Le Suicidé
Artist	Édouard Manet
Year	c. 1877 (1877)–1881 (1881)
Medium	Oil on canvas
Subject	Suicide
Dimensions	38 cm × 46 cm (15 in × 18 in)
Location	Foundation E.G. Bührle, Zurich, Switzerland

Painting

The pictorial content of the painting is limited to a man who appears to have just shot himself—still holding a gun while slouched on a bed—and a few pieces of furniture. Manet has removed the trappings of earlier depictions of suicide, and provided next to no narrative content or "moralizing tendency".[2] Ulrike Ilg associates the painting with the realism of Gustave Courbet, noting that Courbet also used a depiction of death in his Burial at Ornans (1849–50), a work that Courbet later described as the beginning of his new artistic approach.

The realism of Le Suicidé has fueled speculation that it depicts an actual suicide, but the subject, if any, is not known.[3] Speculation has concerned an assistant of Manet who committed suicide in Manet's studio more than a decade earlier. Another suicide proposed to be connected with the painting was that of an artist whom Émile Zola had written about in 1866.[1] Recent critics have downplayed these associations.

Manet's approach to this depiction may represent his continuing desire to break from academic tradition, in which a depiction of suicide could only fit within the genre of history painting—where death and suicide would be placed within a narrative associated with sacrifice, idealism, or heroism. Examples in the French language include The Death of Socrates (1787) by Jacques-Louis David, which depicts Socrates' choice to kill himself by hemlock rather than go into exile. There is no such grand statement underlying Manet's painting. The artist has not presented a clear time, place, or protagonist. The painting is plainly constructed rather than carefully styled. This departure from tradition would have been controversial with contemporary viewers.[4]

See also

• List of paintings by Édouard Manet

Notes

Sources

• Ilg, Ulrike (2002). "Painted Theory of Art: 'Le suicidé' (1877) by Édouard Manet and the Disappearance of Narration". Artibus et Historiae. 23 (45): 179–190. doi:10.2307/1483687. JSTOR 1483687.
• Paradis, Holly (June 12, 2005). "Le Suicide: Manet's Modern Crucifixion". PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. ISSN 2123-4434. Archived from the original on August 18, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2011.

External links

• Le Suicidé page at the web site of the Foundation E.G. Bührle

На других языках

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[de] Der Selbstmörder (Manet)

Der Selbstmörder[1] (französisch Le Suicidé)[2] ist der Titel eines Gemäldes von Édouard Manet. Das 38 cm hohe und 46 cm breite Bild schuf der Künstler zwischen 1877 und 1881 in Öl auf Leinwand. Die Interieurszene zeigt einen toten Mann, der nach seinem Suizid mit blutverschmiertem Hemd und Revolver in der Hand auf einem Bett liegt. Das Gemälde gehört der Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle in Zürich. Bekanntheit erlangte das Bild 2016 durch den Spielfilm Frantz von François Ozon, wo es als Teil der Sammlung des Pariser Louvre zu sehen ist, obschon es dort nie ausgestellt war.

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- [en] Le Suicidé

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[fr] Le Suicidé

Le Suicidé est un tableau peint par Édouard Manet entre 1877 et 1881. Il fait partie de la collection Emil G. Bührle, à Zurich, en Suisse.

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[ru] Самоубийство (Мане)

«Самоубийство» (фр. Le Suicidé) — небольшая картина Эдуарда Мане, написанная между 1877 и 1881 годами. Картина мало изучена, поскольку историки искусства с трудом находят ей место в развитии творчества Мане[1]. Полотно входит в собрание фонда Эмиля Бюрле в Цюрихе.

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