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Beggar with Oysters (Philosopher)
Édouard Manet · 1865–67
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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, October 16, 1894, for 10,000 francs [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1891 (no. 3136); copy of archival reference in curatorial object file]; sold to Arthur Jerome Eddy (d. 1920), Chicago, October 16, 1894, for 20,000 francs; by descent to Mrs. Arthur Jerome Eddy (née Lucy C. Orrell) and Jerome O. Eddy, Chicago, by 1920; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Avenue de l’Alma, Exposition particulière Manet, 1867, no. 31 or 32, as Philosophe.
- Paris, Cercle de L’Union Artistique, 1870, no cat.
- 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. 244.
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Selected Works of Old and Modern Masters Being the Annual Exhibition of the Antiquarians of the Art Institute, January 1–23, 1898, cat. 42.
- New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings by Édouard Manet, November 29–December 13, 1913.
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, September 19–October 22, 1922, cat. 52.
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Painting and Sculpture, December 22, 1931–January 17, 1932, cat. 11.
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 330.
- 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. 251.
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Édouard Manet 1832–1883, November 3–December 11, 1966; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, January 13–February 19, 1967, cat. 73 [Chicago venue only].
Literature
Published references
- 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 ser. 2, 2 (1869), p. 309.
- Duranty, “L’Exposition de Peinture au Cercle de L’Union Artistique”, Paris-Journal, February 19, 1870.
- 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.
- Arthur J. Eddy, “Édouard Manet, Painter,” Brush and Pencil 1, 5 (February 1898), pp. 136 (ill.), 138.
- Théodore Duret, Histoire d’Édouard Manet et de son œuvre (Paris: H. Floury, 1902), pp. 70, 208, no. 65.
- Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists (London: Grants Richards and Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott company, 1910), p. 219, no. 65.
- Julius Meier-Graefe, Édouard Manet (Munich: R. Piper, 1912), pp. 82, 310, pl. 46.
- 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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