Fish (Still Life) by Édouard Manet
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Fish (Still Life)

Édouard Manet · 1864

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; possibly sold to Basset, Paris, 1867 [this and the following per emails from Juliet Wilson-Bareau to the Art Institute of Chicago, November 11, 2016 and April 24, 2017; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 1872, for 250 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1868–73 (no. 1228); copy of reference in curatorial object file]; possibly sold to Jean-Baptiste Faure (d. 1914), Paris, November 16, 1874, for 1,500 francs. Félix Gérard, Paris, by 1884 [lent to Paris, 1884, cat. 31]. Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, by 1900 [Paris, 1900, cat. 449, p. 210]. John W. Simpson (d. 1920), New York, by November 22, 1913 [Simpson placed the picture on deposit at Durand-Ruel, New York (deposit no. 7731) on that day until December 23, 1913]; by descent to Mrs. John W. Simpson (née Kate Seney), New York, 1920; Knoedler and Co., New York, April 18, 1942 [M. Knoedler and Co., New York, Commission Book 3, Getty Research Institute Research Library, Los Angeles]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 1942.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Galerie Martinet, 1865, cat. 5.
  • Paris, Place de l’Alma, Exhibition Manet Particulière, May 1867, cat. 38.
  • Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres d’Édouard Manet, Jan. 1884, cat. 31.
  • Paris, Exposition Internationale Universelle, Exposition Centennale de l’Art Français, 1880–1889, 1900, cat. 31.
  • Paris, Manzi, Joyant et Cie, Exposition d’art moderne, 1912, cat. 27.
  • New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paintings by Édouard Manet, Nov. 29-Dec. 13, 1913, cat. 6.
  • New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, Nov. 29-Dec. 11, 1920, cat. 9.
  • Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Paintings, Édouard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Oct. 15-Dec. 1, 1924, cat. 37; Cleveland Museum of Art, Dec. 9, 1924-Jan. 15, 1925.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, June 26–Oct. 4, 1936, cat. 286.
  • New York, Wildenstein & Co., Édouard Manet: A Retrospective Exhibition for the Benefit of French Hospitals, Mar.–Apr. 1937, cat. 7.
  • New York, Wildenstein & Co., organized by Institute of Modern Art, The Sources of Modern Painting, Apr.–May 1939, cat. 9a (ill.).
  • New York, World’s Fair, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, cat. 282 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres d’Édouard Manet, January 1884, cat. 31.
  • Théodore Duret, Histoire d’Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre (Paris, 1902), no. 70.
  • Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists (London, 1910), p. 220, no. 220.
  • Antonin Proust, Édouard Manet: Souvenirs (Paris, 1913), p. 54, no. 38.
  • Théodore Duret, Histoire de Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre (Paris, 1926), no. 70 (ill.).
  • Étienne Moreau-Nelaton, Manet: Raconté par Lui-Même (Paris, 1926), vol. 1, pp. 63, 79, fig. 69, vol. 2, fig. 344.
  • Adolphe Tabarant, Manet, Histoire Catalographique (Paris, 1931), p. 131, no. 90.
  • Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet (Paris, 1932), vol. 1, p. 128, no. 96, vol. 2, p. 197, fig. 406.
  • Théodore Duret, Manet, trans. J. E. Crawford Flitch, 1937, pl. 39 (ill.).
  • Gotthard Jedlicka, Édouard Manet (Erlenbach-Zurich, 1941), p. 197.
  • Art News 41 (February 1, 1943), p. 31, (ill.).
  • Art News 42 (January 1, 1944), p. 27 (ill.).

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