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    Seated Nude
    Édouard Manet. Seated Nude, 1858/60. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002438

    Seated Nude

    by Édouard Manet

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right, in graphite: "E. Manet"; inscribed upper left, in graphite: "2"; verso, lower center, in graphite: "51 (?) x 40"; just below and slightly to the right, in graphite: "6"

    Provenance

    Sold by the artist to Alphonse Dumas (1844–1913), Paris; given to Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939), Paris, for re-sale, 1891/92; probably sold to Auguste Pellerin (1853–1929), Paris, Dec. 30, 1898 [See Ambroise Vollard, Recollections of a Picture Dealer, trans. Violet M. MacDonald (Constable, 1936), pp. 39–40 and Anne Roquebert, “A Widening Circle: Vollard and His Clients,” in Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, ed. Rebecca A. Rabinow, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006), pp. 219, 228, n. 8]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 7, 1926, lot 35, to Marcel Guérin (1873–1948), Paris [New York, 1983 exh. cat.]; by descent to his daughter Edmée Guérin (1909–1999, later Indig-Guérin) [New York, 1983 exh. cat.]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1967.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres de Édouard Manet, Jan. 1884, cat. 177, as Cadre. London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art 1200–1900, Jan.–Mar. 1932, cat. 993, p. 461. Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Manet, 1932, cat. 106, p. 79. Paris, Palais National des Arts, Chefs d’oeuvre de l’art Français, 1937, cat. 686, pp. 314–15. Art Institute of Chicago, Édouard Manet, 1832–1883, Jan. 13–Feb. 19, 1967, addenda, cat. 196, n. pag. Art Institute of Chicago, The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings, summer 1974, cat. 73 (ill.), pp. 148–49. Paris, Musée du Louvre, Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso, Oct. 15, 1976–Jan. 17, 1977, cat. 54 (ill.), n. pag. Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 10–Apr. 10, 1977, cat. 53 (ill.), pp. 112–14. Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Manet, 1832–1883, Apr. 22–Aug. 1, 1983, cat. 24 (ill.), pp. 91–92, 186; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 10–Nov. 27, 1983. Art Institute of Chicago, Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years, 1958–1983, July 24–Sept. 30, 1985, cat. 66 (ill.), pp. 146–47. London, Courtauld Institute Galleries, The Hidden Face of Manet: An Investigation of the Artist’s Working Processes, Apr. 23–June 15, 1986, cat. 11, pp. 32–34, 91, color fig. 1, fig. 36. Vienna, Albertina, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, Feb. 9–May 13, 2012, pp. 172–74, pl. 86. Paris, Musée d'Orsay, "Manet Degas", March 27 - July 23, 2023, traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 18, 2023 - January 7, 2024, p. 106 (ill.), 295, cat. 31, cat. by Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley Dunn, et. al.

    Publications

    École nationale des beaux-arts, Exposition des oeuvres de Édouard Manet, with a preface by Émile Zola, exh. cat. (A. Quantin, 1884), cat. 177, as Cadre. Etienne Moreau-Nelaton, Manet raconté par lui-même, vol. 2 (Henri Laurens, 1926), p. 132, no. 17p, fig. 353. Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art: 1200–1900, Jan.–Mar. (Burlington House, 1932), p. 461, cat. 993. Musée de l’Orangerie, Manet and Modern Beauty: Exposition Manet, 1832-1883, with a preface by Paul Valéry and introduction by Paul Jamot, exh. cat. (Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1932), p. 79, cat. 106. Robert Rey, Choix de soixante-quatre dessins de Edouard Manet (Braun & Cie., 1932), fig. 10. Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art, 1200–1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, January–March 1932 (Oxford University Press, 1933), p. 180, no. 874, pl. 199. Ambroise Vollard, Recollections of a Picture Dealer, trans. Violet M. MacDonald (Constable, 1936), pp. 39–40. Palais National des Arts, Chefs d’oeuvre de l’art Français, with an introduction by Henri Focillon (Paris, 1937), cat. 686, pp. 314–15. Gotthard Jedlicka, Édouard Manet (Eugen Rentsch, 1941), pp. 241–42, ill. opp. 251. Bernhard Degenhart, Europäische Handzeichnungen aus Fünf Jahrhunderten (Atlantis, 1943), p. 193, no. 164 (ill.). Douglas Cooper, The Courtauld Collection (University of London, 1954), p. 143, under no. 140. Robert Rey, Manet (Flammarion, 1962), p. 86 (ill.). Jacques Mathey, Graphisme de Manet: Essai de catalogue raisonné des dessins (F. de Nobele, 1961), pp. 14–15, 27, no. 50 (ill.). Jacques Mathey, Identification d’oeuvres ayant fait partie de la succession de Madame Veuve Édouard Manet (Tournon, 1964), n. pag., under no. 12. Martha Schmierer and Richard Verdi, “Thoughts Arising from the Philadelphia-Chicago Manet Exhibition,” Art Quarterly 30, 3–4 (1967), pp. 244, 249, fig. 1. “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums,” Art Quarterly 30, 3–4 (Winter 1967), pp. 268, 280 (ill.). Anne Coffin Hanson, Édouard Manet: 1832–1883, exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago, 1967) cat. 196, n. pag. Jean Selz, XIXth Century Drawings and Water-colors, trans. Rosalie Siegel (Crown, 1968), p. 136 (ill.). Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Édouard Manet (University of California Press, 1969), pp. 19, 31, 59–61, 64, no. 186, fig. 44. Maurice Sérullaz and Arlette Sérullaz, I disegni dei Maestri: l’Ottocento Francese (Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1970), p. 91, fig. 29. Harold Joachim, The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings, with a preface by Leigh B. Block and John Maxon, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1974), cat. 73 (ill.), pp. 148–49. Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Édouard Manet: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1975), pp. 138–39, no. 363 (ill.). Colin Eisler, The Seeing Hand: A Treasury of Great Master Drawings (Harper and Row, 1975), n. pag., no. F. 12 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), cat. 54 (ill.), n. pag. Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, 1977), cat. 53 (ill.), pp. 112–14. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), pp. 66–67, no. 43. Beatrice Farwell, Manet and the Nude: A Study in Iconography in the Second Empire (Garland Publishing, 1981), pp. x, 157, 410, fig 116. Jane Boruff Resso, “Edouard Manet’s Later Nudes,” MA thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 1981, pp. ix, no. 24; 257, no. 34. Françoise Cachin, Charles S. Moffett, Juliet Wilson-Bareau, and Michel S. Melot, Manet 1832–1883, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), cat. 24 (ill.), pp. 91–92, 186. Martha Tedeschi, Great Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years, 1958–1983, exh. cat. (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), cat. 66 (ill.), pp. 146–47. Juliet Wilson-Bareau, “The Hidden Face of Manet: An Investigation of the Artist’s Working Processes,”Burlington Magazine 128, 997 (Apr. 1986), p. 33, no. 11, fig. 36. Horst Keller, Edouard Manet (Bruckmann, 1989), pp. 31, figs. 23, 33, 172. Juliet Wilson-Bareau, ed., Manet by Himself: Correspondence and Conversation: Paintings, Pastels, Prints and Drawings (Macdonald, 1991), pp. 81, no. 43 (ill.), 307. Peter Meller, “Manet in Italy: Some Newly Identified Sources for His Early Sketchbooks,” Burlington Magazine 144, 1187 (Feb. 2002), pp. 97, fig. 91, pp. 107–8. Manet en el Prado, exh. cat. (Museo Nacional del Prado, 2003), p. 149, fig. 61. Maria Teresa Benedetti, Manet, exh. cat. (Skira, 2005), p. 130. Wayne Andersen, Manet: The Picnic & the Prostitute (Fabriart, 2005), pp. 28–29, fig. 21. Juliet Wilson-Bareau and Malcolm Park, Division and Revision: Manet’s Reichshoffen Revealed (Paul Holberton, 2005), cat. 37, pp. 54, fig. 41, 56, 85. Anne Roquebert, “A Widening Circle: Vollard and His Clients,” in Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, ed. Rebecca A. Rabinow, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006), pp. 219, 228, note 8. Christopher Lloyd, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, exh. cat (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2011), pp. 172–74, pl. 86. Juliet Wilson-Bareau, “Goya und Manet: Zwei Meister hafte Malerradierer Zwei Seelenverwandte Geister,” in Die Historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg, ed. Juliette Scharf and Janna Strzoda (Hatje Cantz, 2012), vol. 1, p. 156. “Manet, Cat. 1, Seated Nude,” 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.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Édouard Manet / French, 1832-1883
    Date
    1858/60
    Medium
    Red chalk on buff laid paper
    Dimensions
    28 × 20 cm (11 1/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
    Accession no.
    1967.30

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