
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005921Sketches from “The Gypsies,” “The Spanish Ballet,” and “Lola de Valence” for “L’Autographe au Salon de 1865”
Inscriptions
Signed upper right, in brush and black ink: "Manet /2 Avril 1865"
Provenance
Maurice Exsteens (1887–1962), Paris [Scharf and Strzoda, 2012]. Acquired by Heinrich Stahl (1868–1942), Berlin, for Otto Gerstenberg (1848–1935), Berlin, July 1929 [e-mail from Janina Dahlmann, Mar. 23, 2011, in curatorial object file]; probably by descent to his daughter, Margarethe Scharf (1889–1961), Berlin; probably sold to Otto Wertheimer (1896–1973), Paris, 1947 [e-mail from Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Sept. 14, 2011, in curatorial object file]; sold by Otto Wertheimer to Dorothy Braude Edinburg (1921–2014), Brookline, Mass., Feb. 1967 [Dorothy Braude Edinburg collection records in curatorial object file]; given by Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Huguette Berès, "Manet: Dessins, aquarelles, eaux-fortes lithographies, correspondance," 1978, n.p., cat. 10 (ill.), as Le buveur d’eau—Danseurs espagnoles—Lola de Valence. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 98, cat. 63 (ill.).
Publications
L’Autographe au salon de 1865, no. 11 (July 8, 1865), p. 87 (ill.). N. Garstein, “Édouard Manet,” The Art Journal (1884), p. 110 (partially ill.). D. Carol Thomson, “The Paris Salon of Fifty Years Ago,” The Studio 65, 269 (Aug. 1915), pp. 162, 165 (ill.). Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet, vol. 1 (Les Beaux Arts, 1932), p. 120, under no. 46, p. 121, under no. 48, and p. 123, under no. 59. Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres (Gallimard, 1947), p. 51, no. 556. George Heard Hamilton, Manet and His Critics (Yale University Press, 1954), p. 76. Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Édouard Manet (University of California Press, 1969), p. 107, no. 177. Carl Chiarenza, “Manet’s Use of Photography in the Creation of a Drawing,” Master Drawings 7, 1 (Spring 1969), p. 42. Jean C. Harris, Édouard Manet, Graphic Works: A Definitive Catalogue Raisonné (Collectors Editions, 1970), p. 126, under no. 43. Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Édouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1975), vol. 1, Peintures, p. 56, under no. 43; p. 64, under nos. 53, 55; vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins, pp. 140–41, no. 371 (ill.); p. 166, no. 460; p. 188, no. 532. Charles F. Stuckey and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Edouard Manet (1832–1883), exh. cat. (Art Life Ltd., 1986), p. 152, under no. 4. Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Édouard Manet, Voyage en Espagne (L’Echoppe, 1988), p. 14. Mario Bois, Manet Tauromachies et Autre Themes Espagnols (Plume, 1994), p. 140 (ill.). Juliet Wilson-Bareau, “Goya und Manet: Zwei Meisterhafte Malerradierer Zwei Seelenverwandte Geister,” in Die Historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg, ed. Juliette Scharf and Janna Strzoda (Hatje Cantz, 2012), vol. 1, p. 154. Juliette Scharf and Hanna Strzoda (editors), with Janina Dahlmanns, Die Historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg (Hatje Cantz, 2012), vol. 2, p. 154, no. 926 (ill.). “Manet, Cat. 8, Sketches from “The Gypsies,” “The Spanish Ballet,” and “Lola de Valence” for “L’Autographe au Salon de 1865,” 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
- 1865
- Medium
- Brush and black ink and wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, pieced in the lower left
- Dimensions
- 18.1 × 12.7 cm (7 3/16 × 5 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2012.84
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