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    Sketches of Snails, Flowering Plant
    Édouard Manet. Sketches of Snails, Flowering Plant, 1864/68. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002183

    Sketches of Snails, Flowering Plant

    by Édouard Manet

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923, with funds provided by Robert Allerton (1873–1964), Chicago.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, p. 94, cat. 919. Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "French Drawings and Prints of the Nineteenth Century," Mar. 21–Apr. 28, 1934, p. 11, cat. 52. Palm Beach, Fl., Society of the Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," Jan. 5–27, 1974, cat. 31.

    Publications

    Regina Shoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (Oxford University Press, 1950), pp. 174–75, pl. 99. Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet (University of California Press, 1969), pp. 39, 81, 134, no. 551, fig. 404. Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1975), pp. 228–29, no. 653 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 69, no. 4A10. “Manet, Cat. 4, Sketches of Snail, Flowering Plant,” 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.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Édouard Manet / French, 1832-1883
    Date
    1864/68
    Medium
    Watercolor over graphite pencil on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    19.8 × 12.6 cm (7 13/16 × 5 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    watercolor
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Robert Allerton
    Accession no.
    1923.1057

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