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The Races at Longchamp
Édouard Manet · 1866
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold to Emile Théodore Delius, Paris, 1877, for 1,000 francs [per see Copie faite pour E. Moreau-Nélaton de documents sur Manet appartenant à Léon Leenhoff vers 1910, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Estampes et photographie, RESERVE 8-YB3-2401, p. 76]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 1, 1896, for 3,000 francs [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for c. 1896 (no. 3838, as Les Courses), copy of archival reference in curatorial object file]; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, June 21, 1896, for 45,000 francs; by descent in the Palmer family, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des Oeuvres de Edouard Manet, January 1884, cat. 61.
- New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exposition of Paintings by Edouard Manet, 1895, cat. 27.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition Painting and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 332.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition Painting and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 252.
- New York, Wildenstein & Co., Edouard Manet: A Retrospective Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of French Hospitals, March-April, 1937, cat. 18 (ill.).
- Cambridge, Mass., The Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, The Horse: Its Significance in Art, April 20-May 2, 1938, cat. 14 (ill.).
- Detroit Institute of Arts, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, May-June, 1940, cat. 20
- New York, Wildenstein & Co., From Paris to Sea Down the River Seine, January-February, 1943, cat. 18 (ill.).
- Richmond, Va., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sport and the Horse, April 1-May 15, 1960, cat. 58.
- Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Palmer Family Collections Exhibition, February 23-March 24, 1963, cat. 13.
- Rochester, New York, The Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, In Focus: A Look at Realism in Art, December 28, 1964-January 31, 1965.
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Manet, November 3-December 11, 1966, cat. 68 (ill.), traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, January 13-February 19, 1967, shown only in Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Emile Zola, Edouard Manet: Etude biographique et critique (Paris, 1867), p. 39, reprinted in Zola, Mes Haines (Paris, 1928).
- Theodore Duret, Historie d’Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre (Paris, 1902), p. 228, no. 142.
- Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst (April 1, 1910), p. 188.
- Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists (Paris, 1910), p. 231, no. 142.
- B. Haendcke, “Die historischen Grundlagen der Hell- und Freilichtmalerei,” Die Kunst 12, (January 1, 1911), p. 156 (ill).
- Julius Meier-Graefe, Édouard Manet (Munich, 1912), p. 220, fig. 123.
- Cicerone (October 1, 1913), p. 680.
- Antonin Proust, “Erinnerungen an Édouard Manet,” Kunst und Künstler 11 (1913), p. 211 (ill.).
- Jacques Emile Blanche, Quatre-Vingts Ans de peinture libre, 1800-1885 (Paris 1920), no. 17 (ill.)
- M.C., “Manets in the Art Institute,” The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 18 (1924), p. 49 (ill.).
- J.-E. Blanche, Manet (Paris, 1925), pp. 41, 46, pl. 26.
- Leon Rosenthal, “Manet et l’Espagne,” Gazette des Beaux Arts 12 (1925), pp. 210, 212.
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