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    Portrait of Alphonse Maureau
    Édouard Manet. Portrait of Alphonse Maureau, 1878/79. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004309

    Portrait of Alphonse Maureau

    by Édouard Manet

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right, in gray pastel: "Manet"

    Provenance

    By descent from the artist to his wife, Suzanne Manet (née Leenhoff; 1829–1906), Paris, Apr. 30, 1883 [artist’s estate stamp (Lugt 880), recto, lower right, in red]; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 4–5, 1884, lot 121, to Marcel Bernstein (1840–1896), Paris, for 1,050 francs [Julius Meier-Graefe, Edouard Manet (R. Piper & Co., 1912), p. 327, no. 121, the buyer was recorded as simply Bernstein. Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins(Bibliothèque des arts, 1975), p. 2, no. 6 (ill.), provides the first name “Marcel.”]. Deposited by Ivan Shchukin (1869–1908), Paris, at Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 28, 1900 [Flavie Durand-Ruel, email message to Gloria Groom, May 23, 2016 in curatorial file, Art Institute of Chicago. Durand-Ruel notes, “This pastel was deposited at Durand-Ruel Paris on June 28th 1900 by Ivan Chtchoukine (Durand-Ruel Paris Deposit no. 9835)”; however, this is probably a phonetic spelling of Shchukin and refers to Ivan Shchukin (1869–1908)]; sold by Ivan Shchukin to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Dec. 28, 1900, for 4,500 francs [Flavie Durand-Ruel, e-mail message to Gloria Groom, May 23, 2016, in curatorial file, Art Institute of Chicago. See Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock 6182 and photo 1750.]. Durand-Ruel, Paris, to at least 1914. Carl O. Nielsen (1868–1950), Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. Deposited by Carl O. Nielsen, Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, at Durand-Ruel, New York, Nov. 8, 1920–Feb. 23, 1923 [Durand-Ruel New York Deposit no. 8033.]. Georges Bernheim, Paris (1893–1943), 1924 [Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Histoire catalographique (Montaigne, 1931), pp. 459­–60, no. 19; and Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins(Bibliothèque des arts, 1975), p. 2, no. 6 (ill.).]. Purchased by Bernheim-Jeune and Company, Paris, Mar. 21, 1924 [Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Bernheim-Jeune and Company, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 12, 2016. The work is stock number 23 839, Bernheim-Jeune stock book for c. 1924.]. Sold by Bernheim-Jeune and Company, Paris, to Walter (1872–1954) and Kate (1897–1947) Brewster, Lake Forest, Ill., Mar. 13, 1925 [invoice]; bequeathed by Kate L. Brewster to the Art Institute, 1950.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galerie de La Vie Moderne, Oeuvres nouvelles d’Edouard Manet, Apr. 8–30, 1880, no. 22. Paris, École nationale des beaux-arts, Exposition des oeuvres de Édouard Manet, Jan. 1884, cat. 154. London, Grafton, Pictures by Boudin, Manet . . . , Jan.–Feb. 1905, cat. 95, p. 10.51 Munich, Moderne Galerie, Impressionisten Ausstellung, Nov. 1909, cat. 20, n.pag.52 Vienna, Galerie Miethke, Manet-Monet, May 1910, cat. 7, n.pag. Durand-Ruel, New York, Premiere Exhibition of Bronzes by Degas, Dec. 6–27, 1922.53 Chicago, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brewster, Special View for the Benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Jan. 20–22, 1933, cat. 15, p. 4. New York, Wildenstein and Company, Edouard Manet, Mar. 19–Apr. 17, 1937, cat. 37, p. 43, 82 (ill.), pl. 37. The Art Institute of Chicago, Kate L. Brewster Bequest, June 13–fall 1950, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, Édouard Manet 1832–1883, Jan. 13–Feb. 19, 1967, cat. 148 (Chicago only), pp. 20 (ill.), 160, 161 (ill.). Toledo Museum of Art, Manet: Portraying Life, Oct. 4, 2012–Jan. 1, 2013, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Jan. 26–Apr. 14, 2013, cat. 22 (Toledo only), pp. 104 (ill.), 184, 200.

    Publications

    Paris, Galerie de La Vie Moderne, Oeuvres nouvelles d’Edouard Manet, exhibition pamphlet, Apr. 8–30, 1880, no. 22. “Échos de Paris,” Le Gaulois, Apr. 8, 1880, p. 1. Louis Gonse, “Manet,” Gazette des beaux-arts courrier européen de l'art et de la curiosité 29 (Feb. 1884), p. 149 (ill.). Paul Eudel, “La vente Manet,” Le Figaro, Feb. 5, 1884, p. 2 Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres de Édouard Manet (A. Quantin, 1884), cat. 154, n. pag. Thédore Duret, Histoire d’Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre (H. Floury, 1902), p. 300, no. 74. London, Grafton, A Selection from the Pictures by Boudin, Manet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Sisley: Exhibited by Messrs. Durand-Ruel and Sons, of Paris, at the Grafton Galleries (Durand-Ruel, 1905), cat. 95, p. 10. André Chatté, “Notes sur Manet: V. La vente Manet en 1884 (4–5 fev.),” Le Journal des Curieux 3, 27 (Mar. 10, 1907), p. 13. Moderne Galerie, Munich, Impressionisten Ausstellung, exhibition pamphlet (Nov. 1909), cat. 20, n. pag. Vienna, Galerie Miethke, Manet-Monet, exh. cat. (Moriz-Frisch Druck, 1910) , cat. 7, n. pag. Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists, trans. J. E. Crawford Flitch, (Grant Richards, 1910), p. 276, no. 74. H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des Ventes d’Art 5 (Maison d’éditions d’oeuvres ratistiques, 1911), p. 63. Julius Meier-Graefe, Edouard Manet (R. Piper & Co., 1912), p. 327, no. 121. Antonin Proust, Édouard Manet: Souvenirs (Henri Laurens, 1913), p. 169, no. 154. Thédore Duret, Histoire de Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre, rev. ed. (Bernheim-Jeune, 1919), no. 74. Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins & d’estampes (Vereenigde Drukkerijen, 1921), p. 156. Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, Exhibition of Bronzes by Degas, exhibition pamphlet, Dec. 6–27, 1922, n. pag. Théodore Duret, Histoire de Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre (Bernheim-Jeune, 1926), p. 298, no. 74. Étienne Moreau-Nelaton, Manet: Raconté par lui-même, vol. 2 (Henri Laurens, 1926), pp. 98, 131, no. 154, 143, fig. 322. Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Histoire Catalographique (Montaigne, 1931), pp. 459­–60, 588, no. 19. Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet (Les Beaux-Arts, 1932), vol. 1, p. 182, no. 528, vol. 2, p. 123 (ill.), fig. 226. Chicago, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brewster, Special View for the Benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, exh. cat., Jan. 20–22, 1933, cat. 15, p. 4. New York, Wildenstein and Company, Edouard Manet, exh. cat., Mar. 19–Apr. 17, 1937, cat. 37, p. 43, 82 (ill.), pl. 37. Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Manet: First American Retrospective,” Art News (Mar. 20, 1937), p. 24. Robert Rey, Manet, trans. Eveline Byam Shaw (Hyperion Press, 1938), pp. 42 (ill.), 162. Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses Oeuvres (Gallimard, 1947), pp. 338, 546, 617 (ill.), no. 473. Daniel Catton Rich, “The Kate L. Brewster Bequest,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 44, 3 (Sept. 15, 1950), pp. 51, 52 (ill.). Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1952), n. pag. (ill.). Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 272. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (Sept. 1966), p. 203. Clement Greenberg, “Manet in Philadelphia: ‘ . . . An Artist Exceptional in His Inconsistency,’” Art Forum 5, 5 (Jan. 1967), p. 23. Anne Coffin Hanson, Édouard Manet 1832–1883, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967), pp. 20 (ill.);160, 161 (ill.), cat. 148. Marcello Venturi and Sandra Orienti, L’opera pittorica di Edouard Manet (Rizzoli, 1967), pp. 109, no. 265 (ill.), 120 (ill.). Phoebe Pool and Sandra Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Manet, exh. cat. (Abrams, 1967), p. 109, no. 265. Merete Bodelsen, “Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the Light of Some Unpublished ‘Procès-Verbaux,’” Burlington Magazine 110, 783 (June 1968), p. 342, no. 121. Denis Rouart and Sandra Orienti, Tout l’oeuvre peint d’Édouard Manet (Flammarion, 1970), p. 109 (ill.), no. 265. Pierre Courthion, Manet (Nouvelles Éditions Françaises, 1974), p. 55. Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins (Bibliothèque des arts, 1975), p. 2, 3 (ill.), no. 6 (ill.). Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (Abbeville Press, 1980), pp. 112 (ill.), 436. Sandra Orienti, Tout Manet 1873–1883, La Peinture, trans. Claude Lauriol and Diana Grange-Fiori (Flammarion, 1981), pp. 33–34, no. 262 (ill.). Theresa A. Gronberg, Manet: A Retrospective (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1988), pp. 190, 222, 242, 280, pl. 86, 341. Nathalie Malterre, “Société et vie parisienne dans l’oevure de Manet,” PhD diss., Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 1988, p. 111. Françoise Cachin, Manet (Profils de l’Art, 1990), p. 154 (ill.), no. 19. Éric Darragon, Manet (Citadelles, 1991), pp. 373, 378 (ill.), fig. 282, p. 379. Peter H. Feist, Malerei des Impressionismus, 1860­–1920, ed. Ingo F. Walther, vol. 1, Der Impressionismus in Frankreich (Benedikt Taschen, 1992), p. 178 (ill.). Henri Lallemand, Manet: A Visionary Impressionist (Todtri, 1994), pp. 102 (ill.), 103. Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (Artabras, 1997), p. 388, fig. 96. Joseph S. Czestochowski, Degas, Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes (International Arts, 2002), p. 17 (ill.), fig. 7. Melissa De Medeiros, “The Document as Voice: The Manet Archive of the Pierpont Morgan Library,” MA thesis, Hunter College, City University of New York, 2002, pt. 2, pp. 151, 162, 186, 194. Henri Lallemand, Manet: A Visionary Impressionist (New Line Books, 2006), pp. 102 (ill.), 103. Emily D. Bilski, “The ‘Moderne Galerie’ of Heinrich Thannhauser” in The “Moderne Galerie” of Heinrich Thannhauser, exh. cat. (Minerva, 2008), p. 17 (ill.). MaryAnne Stevens and Laurence W. Nichols, Manet: Portraying Life, assisted by Sarah Lea, exh. cat. (Toledo Museum of Art, 2013), cat. 22, pp. 104 (ill.), 184, 200. Bridget Alsdorf, “Manet’s Quarrel with Impressionism,” in Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection (Princeton University Art Museum, 2014), pp. 87–93, 90 (ill.), fig. 53. “Manet, Cat. 18, Portrait of Alphonse Maureau,” 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
    1878/79
    Medium
    Pastel on canvas, prepared with an off-white ground
    Dimensions
    54.7 × 45.2 cm (21 9/16 × 17 13/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Bequest of Kate L. Brewster
    Accession no.
    1950.123

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