Degas owned impressions of three different states of this print, an etched translation of the painting that first earned Manet acclaim at the Salon, in 1861. It is a testament to the connoisseurial nature of his collection that it enabled comparison between rare early proofs.
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Gary Tinterow, Geneviève Lacambre Manet/Velàzquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. Exh. cat., Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 16, 2002-January 12, 2003; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 4-June 8, 2003. New Haven, CT, 2002, cat. no. 163, ill.
Stephan Wolohojian, Ashley Dunn Manet/Degas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2023, cat. no. 153, pp. 266, 296, ill.
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