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Lettre à Bracquemond (L'arrosoir)
Details
Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Lettre à Bracquemond (L'arrosoir)
signed 'E. Manet' (centre)
watercolour and pen and black ink (autographed manuscript from the artist to Félix Bracquemond) on paper
7 7/8 x 4¾ in. (20 x 12.2 cm.)
Executed in October 1880 in Bellevue
Lettre à Bracquemond (L'arrosoir)
signed 'E. Manet' (centre)
watercolour and pen and black ink (autographed manuscript from the artist to Félix Bracquemond) on paper
7 7/8 x 4¾ in. (20 x 12.2 cm.)
Executed in October 1880 in Bellevue
Provenance
Félix Bracquemond, Paris, sent by the artist in 1880.
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam.
Franz Koenigs, Amsterdam, by whom acquired from the above before 1938 (on loan to the Stedelijk Museum 1938-1949), and thence by descent to the present owners.
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam.
Franz Koenigs, Amsterdam, by whom acquired from the above before 1938 (on loan to the Stedelijk Museum 1938-1949), and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
J. Guiffrey, Lettres illustrées d'Edouard Manet, Paris, 1929, p. 7 (illustrated pl. XXI).
A. Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres, Paris, 1947, p. 394.
A. de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1969, no. 557.
D. Rouart & D. Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, pastels, aquarelles et dessins, vol. II, Geneva, 1975, no. 582 (illustrated p. 209).
A. Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres, Paris, 1947, p. 394.
A. de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1969, no. 557.
D. Rouart & D. Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, pastels, aquarelles et dessins, vol. II, Geneva, 1975, no. 582 (illustrated p. 209).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Paul Cassirer, Fransche Meesters uit de XIXe eeuw, July - August 1938, no. 83.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Teekeningen van Fransche Meesters 1800-1900, February - March 1946, no. 131.
Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Le dessin français de Claude à Cézanne dans les collections hollandaises, May - June 1964, no. 179 (illustrated pl. 141); this exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, June 1964 - August 1965.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Teekeningen van Fransche Meesters 1800-1900, February - March 1946, no. 131.
Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Le dessin français de Claude à Cézanne dans les collections hollandaises, May - June 1964, no. 179 (illustrated pl. 141); this exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, June 1964 - August 1965.
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