
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000984Fish (Still Life)
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: Manet
Provenance
The artist; possibly sold to Basset, Paris, 1867 [this and the following per emails from Juliet Wilson-Bareau to the Art Institute of Chicago, November 11, 2016 and April 24, 2017; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 1872, for 250 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1868–73 (no. 1228); copy of reference in curatorial object file]; possibly sold to Jean-Baptiste Faure (d. 1914), Paris, November 16, 1874, for 1,500 francs. Félix Gérard, Paris, by 1884 [lent to Paris, 1884, cat. 31]. Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, by 1900 [Paris, 1900, cat. 449, p. 210]. John W. Simpson (d. 1920), New York, by November 22, 1913 [Simpson placed the picture on deposit at Durand-Ruel, New York (deposit no. 7731) on that day until December 23, 1913]; by descent to Mrs. John W. Simpson (née Kate Seney), New York, 1920; Knoedler and Co., New York, April 18, 1942 [M. Knoedler and Co., New York, Commission Book 3, Getty Research Institute Research Library, Los Angeles]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 1942.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Martinet, 1865, cat. 5. Paris, Place de l’Alma, Exhibition Manet Particulière, May 1867, cat. 38. Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres d’Édouard Manet, Jan. 1884, cat. 31. Paris, Exposition Internationale Universelle, Exposition Centennale de l’Art Français, 1880–1889, 1900, cat. 31. Paris, Manzi, Joyant et Cie, Exposition d’art moderne, 1912, cat. 27. New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paintings by Édouard Manet, Nov. 29-Dec. 13, 1913, cat. 6. New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, Nov. 29-Dec. 11, 1920, cat. 9. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Paintings, Édouard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Oct. 15-Dec. 1, 1924, cat. 37; Cleveland Museum of Art, Dec. 9, 1924-Jan. 15, 1925. Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, June 26–Oct. 4, 1936, cat. 286. New York, Wildenstein & Co., Édouard Manet: A Retrospective Exhibition for the Benefit of French Hospitals, Mar.–Apr. 1937, cat. 7. New York, Wildenstein & Co., organized by Institute of Modern Art, The Sources of Modern Painting, Apr.–May 1939, cat. 9a (ill.). New York, World’s Fair, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, cat. 282 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, Feb. 1944, no cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Manet, Nov. 3–Dec. 11, 1965, cat. 95 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 13-Feb. 19, 1966. New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Triumph of Realism, 1967, cat. 5; Richmond, VA, Museum of Fine Arts, Dec. 11, 1967–Jan. 14, 1968; San Francisco, Feb. 17–Mar. 31, 1968, cat. 5. Albi, France, Musée Toulous-Lautrec, Trésors impressionists du musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 1 (ill.). Paris, Galeies Nationales du Grand Palais, Manet (1832–1883), Apr. 22–Aug. 1, 1983, cat. 81 (ill.); New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sep. 10–Nov. 27, 1983. Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Edouard Manet, Sep. 15-Dec. 10, 1989, cat. 8 (ill.). Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Manet les natures mortes, Oct. 9, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001, cat. 17 (ill.); Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, Jan. 30-Apr. 22, 2001. The Art Institute of Chicago, Manet and the Sea, Oct. 20, 2003-Jan. 19, 2004, no cat. no., pl. 18; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 15-May 30, 2004; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, June 18-Sep. 26, 2004. Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 1 (ill.). Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, ONE EACH: Still Lifes by Pissarro, Cézanne, Manet, & Friends, Jan. 18-Apr. 12, 2020, no cat.; Cincinnati Art Museum, Mar. 11-May 8, 2022. Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, In Your Wildest Dreams: James Ensor Beyond Impressionism, Sep. 27, 2024–Jan. 5, 2025, fig . 42. Kunstmuseum Basel, Helen Frankenthaler, Apr. 18–Aug. 23, 2026, cat. 40a, as Poissons, Fusche.
Publications
Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres d’Édouard Manet, January 1884, cat. 31. Théodore Duret, Histoire d’Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre (Paris, 1902), no. 70. Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists (London, 1910), p. 220, no. 220. Antonin Proust, Édouard Manet: Souvenirs (Paris, 1913), p. 54, no. 38. Théodore Duret, Histoire de Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre (Paris, 1926), no. 70 (ill.). Étienne Moreau-Nelaton, Manet: Raconté par Lui-Même (Paris, 1926), vol. 1, pp. 63, 79, fig. 69, vol. 2, fig. 344. Adolphe Tabarant, Manet, Histoire Catalographique (Paris, 1931), p. 131, no. 90. Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet (Paris, 1932), vol. 1, p. 128, no. 96, vol. 2, p. 197, fig. 406. Théodore Duret, Manet, trans. J. E. Crawford Flitch, 1937, pl. 39 (ill.). Gotthard Jedlicka, Édouard Manet (Erlenbach-Zurich, 1941), p. 197. Art News 41 (February 1, 1943), p. 31, (ill.). Art News 42 (January 1, 1944), p. 27 (ill.). F. A. Sweet, “An Important Stiff Life by Édouard Manet,” Art Institute Bulletin 38 (1944), pp. 35–37 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month: Notes and Bibliography, (February 1944), pp. 82, 83. The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1945), pp. 36-37 (ill.). A. Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres (Paris, 1947), pp. 97, 98, 518, 535, 605, no. 90 (ill.). J.-L. Vaudoyer, E. Manet (Paris, 1955), pl. 20. The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), pp. 32 (ill.), 35. The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, pp. 267–268. Pierre Courthion, Édouard Manet (New York, 1962), pp. 84–85. Phoebe Pool and Sandra Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Manet (New York, 1967), pl. VIb. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 77 (ill.). Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné: Peintures vol. 1 (Paris, 1975), no. 80 (ill.). Anne Coffin Hanson, Manet and the Modern Tradition (New York, 1977), p. 70, pl. 27. The Art Institute of Chicago 100 Masterpieces (Chicago, 1978), p. 85, no. 43 (ill.). Gabriel P. Weisberg and William S. Talbot, Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France (Cleveland, 1979), p. 39, fig. 26. Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 55-56 (ill.). Kathleen Adler, Manet (Oxford, 1986), pp. 189–191, fig. 179. J. Patrice Marandel, “A Note on Bazille’s ‘Still Life with Fish,’” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 65, 4 (1990), p. 6, 7, 11, fig.2, no. 8. Frédéric Bazille exh. cat. (Montpellier, Musée Fabre and New York, The Brooklyn Museum, 1992), p. 93, under cat. 12. Manuela B. Mena Marqués, ed., Manet en el Prado (Madrid, Museo National del Prado, 2003-4), p. 222 (ill.), under cat. 59. The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 1, pp. 28–29 (ill.). “Manet, Cat. 2, Fish (Still Life),” in Manet Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), https://publications.artic.edu/manet/reader/manetart/section/140020. James Ensor: In Your Wildest Dreams; Beyond Impressionism, exh. cat. (Antwerp: KMSKA; Hannibal, 2024), fig . 42. Anita Haldemann, ed., Helen Frankenthaler, exh. cat. (Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2026), 62, 91 (ill.), cat. 40a, as Poissons, Fusche.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
- Date
- 1864
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73.5 × 92.4 cm (28 15/16 × 36 3/8 in.); Framed: 108.6 × 127 × 12.7 cm (42 3/4 × 50 × 5 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1942.311
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