Etude de mains, joueuse de guitare

Details

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Etude de mains, joueuse de guitare
sanguine on paper
Image size: 7 1/8 x 9½ in. (18.1 x 24.1 cm.)
Sheet size: 9 3/8 x 10½ in. (23.8 x 26.6 cm.) irregular
Drawn circa 1860-1862

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 21 February 1985, lot 151.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

E. Bazire, Manet, Paris, 1884, p. 7 (illustrated).
L. Gonse, "Manet," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, February 1884, p. 137 (illustrated).
A. de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet, Berkeley, 1969, p. 103, no. 137 (illustrated, fig. 188; titled Joueur de luth).
D. Rouart and D. Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1975, vol. II, p. 138, no. 365 (illustrated).

Sale room notice

Please note the correct dimensions are as follows:
Image size: 7 1/8 x 9½ in. (18.1 x 24.1 cm.)
Sheet size: 9 3/8 x 10½ in. (23.8 x 26.6 cm.) irregular

Lot Essay

According to Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein (op. cit.), the present drawing may be a study for the painting Joueuse de Guitare (1867; collection Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut), in which the artist depicted Victorine Meurent playing the guitar, as seen from behind.

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