LOT DETAILS

Materials:

brush and black ink and pencil on tracing paper

Measurements:

6.06 in. (15.40 cm.) (height) by 4.84 in. (12.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres de Edouard Manet, January 1884, no. 176.Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Drawings of Five Centuries, April-May 1959, no. 98 (titled Portrait of Victorine Meurend).New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, French Master Drawings, Renaissance to Modern, February-March 1959, no. 91 (illustrated; titled Portrait of Victorine Meurend).Minneapolis, University Gallery, University of Minnesota and New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Nineteenth Century, One Hundred and Twenty-Five Master Drawings, May-July 1962, no. 75.The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Drawings and Watercolors from Minnesota Private Collections, May-June 1971, no. 21 (illustrated; titled Portrait of Victorine Meurend and dated circa 1870).

Literature:

F. Lochard, Album de Photographies, Paris, 1883, vol. III, no. 182 (illustrated).A. Chatté, "Notes sur Manet, V. la vente Manet en 1884," Journal des curieux, 10 March 1907, p. 13.R. Raoul, "New York Letter, The Taste for Drawings," Apollo, July 1962, p. 411 (illustrated; titled Portrait of Victorine Meurend).M. Bodelsen, "Early Impressionist Sales, 1874-1894," Burlington Magazine, June 1968, p. 342, no. 147.A. de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet, Berkeley, 1969, p. 124, no. 420 (illustrated, fig. 339; titled Portrait of Victorine Meurend).D. Rouart and D. Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1975, vol. II, p. 158, no. 430 (illustrated, p. 159).

Provenance:

Suzanne Manet, Paris (by descent from the artist); Estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4-5 February 1884, lot 147.Alphonse Portier, Paris (acquired at the above sale).Camille Pissarro, Paris; Estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3 December 1928, lot 69.Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York (by 1959).Acquired from the above by the late owner, April 1962.