Woman Reading

1. The artist; sold to Jean-Baptiste Faure (d. 1914), Paris, March 1882 [per Leenhoff, c. 1910, published online, fol. 81, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10548955r]; by descent to his son, Maurice Faure (1862-1915), Paris, probably through 1928 [per Tabarant 1931, p. 341; according to Bernheim-Jeune exhibition label on the stretcher from 1928, the painting was possibly still with the family]. Possibly Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1928 or 1929 [per Allan, Beeny, and Groom, 2019, p. 303]. Howard Young Galleries, New York, by 1929; sold to Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn (née Annie Swan, d. 1932), Chicago, 1929 [per Art News 27, 40 (Sept. 14, 1929), p. 12]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des Oeuvres de Édouard Manet, January 1884, cat. 92.
• Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings: Édouard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot, October–December 1924, cat. 37 (ill.).
• Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition des Oeuvre de Manet, 1925, cat. 78.
• Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition des Oeuvre de Manet, April–May 1928, cat. 25 (ill.).
• Berlin, Goldschmidt Galerie, Impressionisten Sondersusstellung, 1928.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection, 1932, cat. 17 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 328.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 249.
• New York, Wildenstein & Co., Edouard Manet: A Retrospective Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of French Hospitals, March–April 1937, cat. 29 (ill.).
• San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition 1940, cat. 276 (ill.).
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Painting From David Toulouse-Lautrec, February–March 1941, cat. 81.
• Des Moines, Iowa, Art Center, 19th and 20th Century European and American Art, 1948, no cat.

• Théodore Duret, Histoire d’Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre (Paris, 1902), no. 255.
• Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists (London, 1910), p. 251, no. 255.
• Léon Leenhoff, Manet: Ensemble de notes et de documents sur le peintre, c. 1910. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Estampes et photographie, RESERVE 8-YB3-2401, fol. 81, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10548955r
• Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, Manet: Raconté par lui-même vol. 2 (Paris, 1926), p. 53, fig. 241, 346 (ill.).
• “Aus der soeben eröffneten Impressionisten-Sonderausstellung,” Der Cicerone 20, 3 (February 1928), p. 113 (ill.).
• Art News 27, 40 (September 1929), p. 12 (ill.).
• “Chicago Women Acquires a Famous Manet,” Art Digest 4 (October 1, 1929), p. 11 (ill.).
• “Modern Art in New York,” Kunst und Künstler 28, 2 (November 1929), p. 82 (ill.).
• The Art 16, 6 (1930), p. 411 (ill.).
• A. Tabarant, Manet: Histoire catalographique (Paris, 1931), p. 341, no. 293.
• Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet (Paris, 1932), vol. 1, p. 161, no. 334, vol. 2, p. 71, fig. 158.
• “Masterpieces of the French Impressionists,” The Fine Arts 19, 1 (June 1932), p. 23 (ill.).

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George Moore (1852–1933)

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The Dead Christ with Angels

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A Matador

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Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue

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The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil

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