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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The rue Mosnier with Gas Lamp
    Édouard Manet. The rue Mosnier with Gas Lamp, 1878. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003008

    The rue Mosnier with Gas Lamp

    by Édouard Manet

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right, in brush and black ink: "E.M."; inscribed lower right, in graphite (partially erased): "Inv [illegible] 3"

    Provenance

    Jacques Doucet (1853–1929), Paris, probably after 1908; sold by at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 28–29, 1917, lot 240 to Paul Rosenberg (1881–1959), Paris [Edouard Sebline to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 14, 2004, e-mail correspondence, in curatorial object file]; sold by Paul Rosenberg, New York, to the Art Institute, 1945.

    Exhibition history

    London, Matthiesen Ltd., A Century of French Drawings: From Prud’hon to Picasso, May 3–21, 1938, n.p., cat. 101, as Rue de Berne. Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings: Old and New, 1946, p. 20, cat. 34, pl. XIV. Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, De David à Toulouse-Lautrec, 1955, n.p., cat. 83, pl. 36. New York, Wildenstein and Company, Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17–Nov. 30, 1963, cat. 99. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Édouard Manet, 1832–1883, Nov. 3–Dec. 11, 1966, pp. 156–57, cat. 142 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 13–Feb. 19, 1967. Art Institute of Chicago, A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944–1970 by Margaret Day Blake, Apr. 28–June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 30 (ill.). Paris, Musée du Louvre, Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso, Oct. 15, 1976–Jan. 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 56 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 10–Apr. 10, 1977, pp. 116–17, cat. 55 (ill.). Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, Manet and Modern Paris, Dec. 5, 1982–Mar. 6, 1983, pp. 238–39, cat. 87 (ill.). Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Manet 1832–1883, Apr. 22–Aug. 1, 1983, p. 401, cat. 160 (ill.); New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 10–Nov. 27, 1983. Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Manet, Monet: La gare Saint-Lazare, 1998, pp. 133–34, fig. 118, p. 198, cat. 38; shown in Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, June 14–Sept. 20, 1998. Vienna, Albertina, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, Feb. 9–May 13, 2012, p. 174–75, pl. 88.

    Publications

    John Rewald, “Paysages de Paris de Corot à Utrillo,” La Renaissance (Jan.–Feb. 1937), p. 19 (ill.). Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (J. J. Augustin, 1947), pp. 282–83, no. 141 (ill.). Regina Shoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (Oxford University Press, 1950), p. 174, pl. 98. Jacques Mathey, Graphisme de Manet: Essai de catalogue raisonné des dessins (F. de Nobele, 1961), p. 32, no. 121 (ill.). Dario Durbé, Edouard Manet (Fratelli Fabbri, 1964), n.p., fig. 3. “Edouard Manet: Dessins,” L’Ephémère 6 (1968), p. 23 (detail ill.). Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet (University of California Press, 1969), pp. 33–34, 78, and 131, no. 502, fig. 24. Jean Leymarie, Impressionist Drawings from Manet to Renoir, trans. Robert Allen (Skira, 1969), pp. 34–35 (ill.), 103. Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Édouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1975), pp. 126–27, no. 327 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (The University of Chicago Press, 1979), pp. 68–69, no. 4A8. Jean Leymarie, Genevieve Monnier, and Bernice Rose, Drawing (Skira, 1979), p. 192 (ill.). Theresa A. Gronberg, Manet: A Retrospective (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1988), pp. 130–31. Françoise Cachin, Manet (Profils de l’Art, 1990), p. 124, fig. 1. Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing (Lawrence King Ltd., 1991), p. 90, fig. 4a. “Manet, Cat. 17, The rue Mosnier with Gas Lamp,” 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
    1878
    Medium
    Brush with tusche, over graphite on transfer paper, laid down on cream wove paper
    Dimensions
    27.7 × 44.1 cm (10 15/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mrs. Alice H. Patterson given in memory of Tiffany Blake
    Accession no.
    1945.15

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