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Russell Collection Inventory

MANET, Edouard (1832-1883)

Edouard Manet was born in Paris in 1832. For over twenty years Manet sought academic and public acceptance at the annual Paris Salon for his original, brilliant, and enigmatic canvases. Because of the furor that his works created at the Salons, he became the first major artist in whose career both the journalists and the general public played vital roles. Although the Impressionists --sometimes called “la bande De Manet” respected Manet he never exhibited with them or painted a truly Impressionist work. Nevertheless, his paintings of the early 1870s do seem influenced by Impressionism, or perhaps by Berthe Morisot, who had become his pupil in 1868, was later his model, and in 1874 became his sister-in-law.

Manet was 26 when he first submitted to the Salon his Absinthe Drinker (1858-9), a cloaked, top-hatted bohemian figure. The Salon of 1859 rejected the work. In 1861, however, his large Spanish Singer was accepted, given an honorable mention, and widely acclaimed. An admirer stated that the painting represented a stand between Realism and Romanticism. Manet worked throughout 1862 and began the year of 1863 by showing 14 canvases at a dealer’s art gallery and sending three major works to the Salon. All three were rejected. But that year artists were allowed to show their rejected work separately at the “Salon des Refuses.” There, Manet’s large composition, Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe, on which women are shown undressed beside clothed men in a wood, created a scandal. From that time on, Manet’s paintings were the focus of popular attention.

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Dejeuner sur L Herbe (after) 1929

Dejeuner sur L Herbe (after) 1929
Aquatint in colors
G. & P. E668 c. 1929 As published in Bernheim-Jeune, Paris Full Margins Signed in pencil by Villon and numbered 159/200
Unframed Size: Image size: 19.6” x 24.8”
Framed Size: No Size Available
Inventory Number: M 1224

Le Printemps

Le Printemps
Etching on cream laid paper
Guerin 66, Harris 88 c. 1882 Third state of five as published by the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1902 Signature in plate “Manet” lower left Full Margins
Unframed Size: Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 1/4"
Framed Size: No Size Available
Inventory Number: M 1392

La Convelescente

La Convelescente
Etching and aquatint on tinted laid paper
Guerin 65, Harris 85 c. 1868 From the Bazire edition 1884
Unframed Size: Image size: 5 x 5"
Framed Size: No Size Available
Inventory Number: M 1397

Le Garmin au Chien

Le Garmin au Chien
Etching with Drypoint printed in black ink
Guerin 28, Harris 31 c. 1867 As published in Histoire d’Edouard Manet et de Son Oeuvre, Duret 1902
Unframed Size: 8 1/4 x 5 7/8"
Framed Size: No Size Available
Inventory Number: M 1483

Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot
Etching
Harris 75, Guerin 59 II, Melot M. 61 c. 1872 As published in Edouard Manet: Sein Leben und Seine Kunst, 1910 3rd State of 3
Unframed Size: 11 x 9"
Framed Size: No Size Available
Inventory Number: M 1487

Baudelaire De Profile Chapeau

Baudelaire De Profile Chapeau
Etching on wove paper
Harris 21, Guerin 30, Melot M. 54 c. 1872 As published in Edouard Manet: Sein Leben und Seine Kunst, 1910 2nd State of 2
Unframed Size: 11 x 9"
Framed Size: No Size Available
Inventory Number: M 1488

Lola de Valence

Lola de Valence
Etching and aquatint on cream laid paper
Guerin 23, Harris 33 c. 1863 Sixth state of eight as published by the Cadart & Luquet, Paris Bearing blind stamp of Cadart & Luquet Signature in plate. lower left Full Margins
Unframed Size: 11 x 9"
Framed Size: No Size Available
Inventory Number: M 1532