LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.75 in. (65.40 cm.) (height) by 32.01 in. (81.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed by another hand Manet (lower right)

Exhibited:

Berlin, Galerie Matthiesen, Edouard Manet, 1928, no. 42, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1876-77) The Hague, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 1936-1947 (on loan); New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Reader's Digest Collection, 1963, illustrated in the catalogue; Tokyo, Palaceside Building, Forty Paintings from The Reader's Digest Collection, 1966, no. 17, illustrated in the catalogue; New York; St. Paul, Minnesota; Detroit; Chicago; Stuttgart; London, Wildenstein & Co.; Milan & Paris, Selections from The Reader's Digest Collection, 1985-86, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (as dating from 1876); Auckland, Auckland City Art Gallery, The Reader's Digest Collection: Manet to Picasso, 1989, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (as dating from 1876)

Literature:

Théodore Duret, Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son œuvre, Paris, 1902, no. 207, mentioned p. 244 Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists, London, 1912, no. 207, mentioned p. 237; Alphonse Tabarant, Manet: Histoire Catalographique, Paris, 1931, no. 251, mentioned pp. 303-4 & 582; Paul Jamot, Georges Wildenstein & Marie-Louise Bataille, Manet, Paris, 1932, vol. I, no. 319, catalogued p. 159; vol. 2, no. 319, illustrated p. 183; Alphonse Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, 1947, no. 259, illustrated p. 611; Marcello Venturi, L’opera pittorica di Edouard Manet, Milan, 1967, no. 219, illustrated p. 106; Merete Bodelsen, ‘Early Impressionist Sales, 1874-1894’, in The Burlington Magazine, June 1968, no. 61, listed pp. 341-342; Denis Rouart & Sandra Orienti, Tout l'œuvre peint d'Edouard Manet, Paris, 1970, no. 219, illustrated p. 106; Denis Rouart & Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1975, no. 317, illustrated p. 247

Provenance:

Estate of the artist (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4th February 1884, no. 61) Auguste Pellerin, Paris (acquired by 1902); Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired by 1908); Baron Mór Lipót Herzog, Budapest (acquired by 1913); Paul Cassirer, Berlin; Dr Paul & Frieda Steiner, Berlin, Rotterdam & London (acquired by 1932); Justin K. Thannhauser, New York (acquired from the above in 1949); Reader's Digest, New York (acquired in 1949. Sold: Sotheby’s, New York, The Reader’s Digest Collection, 16th November 1998, lot 4); Purchased at the above sale by the late owner