
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003212Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man
Inscriptions
Inscribed upper right, in brown ink and graphite: “Bellevue/sur mer/Lundi/16 août 80.”; lower right, in brown ink: “Les dineurs d’hier/ecrivez-moi”
Provenance
Jacques Blot, Paris, 1930–at least 1931. Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago, by Nov. 1931 [Chicago 1931 exh. cat.]. Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, also known as Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago and New York, by 1938 [Chicago 1938 exh. cat.]. Given by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.
Exhibition history
Chicago, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, An Exhibition of Original Drawings and Lithographs by Modern Masters, Nov. 10–30, 1931 (ill.). Chicago, The Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, Nov. 4–25, 1938, cat. 74. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, "Manet and Modern Beauty", October 8, 2019 - January 12, 2020, The Art Institute of Chicago, May 26 - September 8, 2019, cat. 46, 108, 229 (ill.), 299-300, cat. by Scott Allan, Emily A. Beeny, Gloria Groom, et. al.
Publications
Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Histoire Catalographique (Paris, 1931), no. 85. Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et Ses Oeuvres (Paris, 1947), no. 640 (ill.). Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet (Berkley, 1969), no. 571 (ill.). Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet Catalogue Raisonné, II (Lausanne, 1975), no. 585 (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. 4A9. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 69, no. 4A9. “Manet, Cat. 20, Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man,” 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
- 1880
- Medium
- Watercolor with pen and brown ink and graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 20.1 × 12.4 cm (7 15/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink or chalk wash
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
- Accession no.
- 1950.1520
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