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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man
    Édouard Manet. Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man, 1880. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003212

    Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man

    by Édouard Manet

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.

    Open-access museum data

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    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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