Beggar with a Duffle Coat (Philosopher)

1. The artist, until 1872; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, January 1872, for 1,000 or 1,500 francs [per Durand-Ruel and Durand-Ruel, 2011, 284–85]; sold to Jean-Baptiste Faure (d. 1914), Paris, November 13, 1882, along with two other paintings for 5,750 francs (known as “Philosophies”) [per the Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1877 (as no. 1189) and in the stock book for 1880–84 (as no. 1171, Le Mendiant, and also as no. 2628, Le Philosophe); copy of archival reference in curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, December 31, 1898, for 12,000 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1891 (no. 4934); copy of archival reference in curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, May 1909 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, undated stock book (no. 3321), copy of archival reference in curatorial object file]; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 17, 1911.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Avenue de l’Alma, Exposition particulière de Manet, 1867, no. 31 or 32, as Philosophe.
• Munich, Internationalen Kunstausstellung, July 20–October 31, 1869, no. 1361 as Der Philosoph.
• London, 168 New Bond Street, Third Exhibition of the Society of French Artists, 1872, cat. 31, as A Beggar.
• Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition posthume Manet, January 1884, cat. 29 or 30.
• New York, National Academy of Design, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, April 10–May 25, 1886, cat. 240.
• London, Grafton Galleries, A Selection from the Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, 1905, cat. 97.
• Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Inaugural exhibition, January 7–February 7, 1915, cat. 242.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 331.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum, Manet and Renoir, November–December 1933, no cat.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 250.
• Detroit Institute of Arts, The Two Sides of the Medal. French Paintings from Gerome to Gauguin, September 25–October 31, 1954, cat. 17.
• Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, 50th Anniversary Exhibition, November 2, 1965–January 2, 1966, no cat.

• Émile Zola, Édouard Manet: étude biographique et critique (Paris: E. Dentu, 1867), p. 39.
• Hippolyte Babou, “Les dissidents de l’exposition: M. Édouard Manet,” Revue libérale 2 (June–July 1867), pp. 288–89.
• Eugène Muntz, “Exposition internationale de Munich,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts (October 1869), p. 309.
• Jules-Michel Godet, “Œuvres de M. Ed. Manet (24 photographies),” Bibliographie de la France 189 (April 20, 1872), cat. 5.
• Anatole Godet, Exposition rétrospective de l’œuvre d’Edouard Manet, Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, 6 au 28 janvier 1884 (Paris, 1884), [no pag.].
• Joséphin Péladan, “Le Procédé de Manet, d’après l’exposition faite à l’ École des Beaux-Arts,” L’Artiste (February 1884), p. 109.
• Théodore Duret, Histoire d’Édouard Manet et de son œuvre (Paris: H. Floury, 1902), pp. 70, 208, no. 66.
• Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists (London: Grant Richards and Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1910), p. 219, no. 66.
• “Manet’s ‘Mendicant’,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 4, 4 (April 1911), pp. 62–63 (ill.).
• Julius Meier-Graefe, Édouard Manet (Munich: R. Piper, 1912), pp. 56, 83, 310, fig. 47.
• Antonin Proust, Édouard Manet (Paris: H. Laurens, 1913), pp. 53, 164.
• Emil Waldmann, Édouard Manet (Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1923), p. 46.

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