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| Edgar Degas Portrait of Édouard Manet etching mid-1860s |
Édouard Manet, in common with many other French artists and authors of the mid-nineteenth century, admired the writings of deceased alcoholic American horror-writer Edgar Allan Poe. In the mid-1870s Manet engraved an imaginary portrait in honor of Poe (with bow on top, below) and a suite of illustrations for a Paris edition of The Raven (Le Corbeau).
Stéphane Mallarmé made the translation into French for this edition.