Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower right): Manet
Gallery Label At the end of his life, illness forced Manet to limit his work to the small-scale still lifes like this canvas and views of the garden around his house at Rueil, near Paris, where he lived during the summer of 1882.
Provenance Auguste Pellerin, Paris (in 1902); Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris (by 1919–51; sold in July to Salz); [Sam Salz, New York, 1951; sold in August to Spingold]; Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, New York (1951–56; his life interest, 1956–d. 1958; her life interest, 1956–d. 1976)
Exhibition History Berlin. Galerie Matthiesen. "Édouard Manet, 1832–1883," February 6–March 18, 1928, no. 80.
1953, no. ?
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Nate and Frances Spingold Collection," March 23–June 19, 1960, unnumbered cat.
Waltham, Mass. Dreitzer Gallery, Spingold Theater, Brandeis University. "Nate B. and Frances Spingold Collection," June 11–16, 1965, no catalogue.
Gifu, Japan. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Gifu. "Paris autour de 1882: Le développemént de la peinture moderne en France et Hôsui Yamamoto," November 3–December 19, 1982, no. 77.
Kamakura. Kanagawa Museum of Modern Art. "Paris autour de 1882: Le développemént de la peinture moderne en France et Hôsui Yamamoto," January 20–February 20, 1983, no. 77.
Dortmund. Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte. "Cézanne, Manet, Schuch: Drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst," May 30–July 30, 2000, no. 16.
Paris. Musée d'Orsay. "Manet, les natures mortes," October 9, 2000–January 7, 2001, no. 44.
Baltimore. Walters Art Gallery. "Manet, The Still-Life Paintings," January 30–April 22, 2001, unnumbered cat.
References Théodore Duret. Histoire d'Édouard Manet et de son œuvre . Paris, 1902, pp. 273–74, no. 311. Étienne Moreau-Nélaton. Manuscript Catalogue of the Paintings and Pastels of Édouard Manet . [1906], unpaginated, no. 306 [Département des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris]. Théodore Duret. Manet and the French Impressionists . 2nd ed. [1st ed. 1910]. London, 1912, p. 246, no. 311. L'art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois; cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J.&G. Bernheim-Jeune . Paris, 1919, vol. 1, p. 92, pl. 78. A. Tabarant. Manet, histoire catalographique . Paris, 1931, pp. 424–25, no. 386. Paul Colin. Édouard Manet . Paris, 1932, p. 181, pl. XCVI. Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein. Manet . Paris, 1932, vol. 1, p. 178, no. 485; vol. 2, fig. 446. A. Tabarant. Manet et ses œuvres . 4th ed. (1st. ed. 1942). Paris, 1947, pp. 453–54, 544, no. 412. Sandra Orienti in The Complete Paintings of Manet . New York, 1967, p. 119, no. 395, ill. Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. "XIX–XX Centuries." French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art . 3, New York, 1967, p. 52, ill. Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein. Édouard Manet, catalogue raisonné . Paris, 1975, vol. 1, pp. 300–301, no. 414, ill. Kathleen Adler. Manet . Oxford, 1986, pp. 192–93, fig. 183. Éric Darragon. Manet . Paris, 1991, pp. 361, 365, fig. 273 (color). Juliet Wilson-Bareau. E-mail to Gary Tinterow . March 21, 2000.