George Moore (1852–1933)

Edouard Manet · 1879

What you practise here

Manet: modern portrait, direct touch

Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.

Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.

Other artworks to study

Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, Full Face, after a photograph by Nadar Claire Campbell Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog Study of Eleven Heads Portrait of a Young Man Study of Two Heads