Portrait of the Italian painter Giuseppe De Nittis

Listed as dated 1900 in the dataset but this appears to require verification, as Manet died in 1883. This portrait of the Italian Impressionist painter Giuseppe De Nittis — who exhibited with the Impressionists in 1874 — likely dates from the 1870s when both artists were active in Paris. De Nittis was part of the international artistic community in Paris and moved in similar circles to Manet; this portrait documents the social world of Parisian avant-garde painting. The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo holds the work, suggesting it passed through Norwegian collecting channels. De Nittis's elegant, fashionable work was widely admired in the 1870s-80s.

Manet's portraiture of fellow artists tended toward directness and psychological penetration rather than flattery. The pose and palette are characteristic of his mature portrait manner — dark clothing providing tonal anchoring, the face built with warm and cool flesh tones. The painting has the quality of a rapid, confident assessment rather than a laboured official portrait.