
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002183Sketches of Snails, Flowering Plant
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.
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
- 1864/68
- 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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