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Portrait of Alphonse Maureau
Édouard Manet · 1878/79
Provenance
Ownership history
- By descent from the artist to his wife, Suzanne Manet (née Leenhoff; 1829–1906), Paris, Apr. 30, 1883 [artist’s estate stamp (Lugt 880), recto, lower right, in red]; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 4–5, 1884, lot 121, to Marcel Bernstein (1840–1896), Paris, for 1,050 francs [Julius Meier-Graefe, Edouard Manet (R. Piper & Co., 1912), p. 327, no. 121, the buyer was recorded as simply Bernstein. Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins(Bibliothèque des arts, 1975), p. 2, no. 6 (ill.), provides the first name “Marcel.”]. Deposited by Ivan Shchukin (1869–1908), Paris, at Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 28, 1900 [Flavie Durand-Ruel, email message to Gloria Groom, May 23, 2016 in curatorial file, Art Institute of Chicago. Durand-Ruel notes, “This pastel was deposited at Durand-Ruel Paris on June 28th 1900 by Ivan Chtchoukine (Durand-Ruel Paris Deposit no. 9835)”; however, this is probably a phonetic spelling of Shchukin and refers to Ivan Shchukin (1869–1908)]; sold by Ivan Shchukin to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Dec. 28, 1900, for 4,500 francs [Flavie Durand-Ruel, e-mail message to Gloria Groom, May 23, 2016, in curatorial file, Art Institute of Chicago. See Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock 6182 and photo 1750.]. Durand-Ruel, Paris, to at least 1914. Carl O. Nielsen (1868–1950), Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. Deposited by Carl O. Nielsen, Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, at Durand-Ruel, New York, Nov. 8, 1920–Feb. 23, 1923 [Durand-Ruel New York Deposit no. 8033.]. Georges Bernheim, Paris (1893–1943), 1924 [Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Histoire catalographique (Montaigne, 1931), pp. 459–60, no. 19; and Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins(Bibliothèque des arts, 1975), p. 2, no. 6 (ill.).]. Purchased by Bernheim-Jeune and Company, Paris, Mar. 21, 1924 [Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Bernheim-Jeune and Company, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 12, 2016. The work is stock number 23 839, Bernheim-Jeune stock book for c. 1924.]. Sold by Bernheim-Jeune and Company, Paris, to Walter (1872–1954) and Kate (1897–1947) Brewster, Lake Forest, Ill., Mar. 13, 1925 [invoice]; bequeathed by Kate L. Brewster to the Art Institute, 1950.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie de La Vie Moderne, Oeuvres nouvelles d’Edouard Manet, Apr. 8–30, 1880, no. 22.
- Paris, École nationale des beaux-arts, Exposition des oeuvres de Édouard Manet, Jan. 1884, cat. 154.
- London, Grafton, Pictures by Boudin, Manet . . . , Jan.–Feb. 1905, cat. 95, p. 10.51
- Munich, Moderne Galerie, Impressionisten Ausstellung, Nov. 1909, cat. 20, n.pag.52
- Vienna, Galerie Miethke, Manet-Monet, May 1910, cat. 7, n.pag.
- Durand-Ruel, New York, Premiere Exhibition of Bronzes by Degas, Dec. 6–27, 1922.53
- Chicago, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brewster, Special View for the Benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Jan. 20–22, 1933, cat. 15, p. 4.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, Edouard Manet, Mar. 19–Apr. 17, 1937, cat. 37, p. 43, 82 (ill.), pl. 37.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Kate L. Brewster Bequest, June 13–fall 1950, no cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Édouard Manet 1832–1883, Jan. 13–Feb. 19, 1967, cat. 148 (Chicago only), pp. 20 (ill.), 160, 161 (ill.).
- Toledo Museum of Art, Manet: Portraying Life, Oct. 4, 2012–Jan. 1, 2013, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Jan. 26–Apr. 14, 2013, cat. 22 (Toledo only), pp. 104 (ill.), 184, 200.
Literature
Published references
- Paris, Galerie de La Vie Moderne, Oeuvres nouvelles d’Edouard Manet, exhibition pamphlet, Apr. 8–30, 1880, no. 22.
- “Échos de Paris,” Le Gaulois, Apr. 8, 1880, p. 1.
- Louis Gonse, “Manet,” Gazette des beaux-arts courrier européen de l'art et de la curiosité 29 (Feb. 1884), p. 149 (ill.).
- Paul Eudel, “La vente Manet,” Le Figaro, Feb. 5, 1884, p. 2
- Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres de Édouard Manet (A. Quantin, 1884), cat. 154, n. pag.
- Thédore Duret, Histoire d’Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre (H. Floury, 1902), p. 300, no. 74.
- London, Grafton, A Selection from the Pictures by Boudin, Manet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Sisley: Exhibited by Messrs. Durand-Ruel and Sons, of Paris, at the Grafton Galleries (Durand-Ruel, 1905), cat. 95, p. 10.
- André Chatté, “Notes sur Manet: V. La vente Manet en 1884 (4–5 fev.),” Le Journal des Curieux 3, 27 (Mar. 10, 1907), p. 13.
- Moderne Galerie, Munich, Impressionisten Ausstellung, exhibition pamphlet (Nov. 1909), cat. 20, n. pag.
- Vienna, Galerie Miethke, Manet-Monet, exh. cat. (Moriz-Frisch Druck, 1910) , cat. 7, n. pag.
- Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists, trans. J. E. Crawford Flitch, (Grant Richards, 1910), p. 276, no. 74.
- H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des Ventes d’Art 5 (Maison d’éditions d’oeuvres ratistiques, 1911), p. 63.
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