# Head of a Raven in Profile, from The Raven (Le Corbeau), in Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet made this in 1875, aged 43. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> A raven’s head in profile, set down in a few bold brushstrokes, belongs to the edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven that Stéphane Mallarmé translated and Manet illustrated in 1875.

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## The work

- Date: 1875
- Medium: Transfer lithograph in black on tan simili-parchment paper
- Dimensions: Image: 16.3 × 15.9 cm (6 7/16 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet folded: 55 × 41.2 cm (21 11/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.52.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Édouard Manet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edouard-manet), French, 1832–1883

Manet came from a prosperous Parisian family, trained under Thomas Couture and studied the old masters, Velázquez above all. In the 1860s he provoked critics with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia, modern subjects painted in flat, frank colour with little modelling.

16 works in the collection.

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