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Title:Suzanne Manet at Bellevue
Artist:Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)
Sitter:Suzanne Manet (French)
Date:1880
Medium:Brush and black wash over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:6-3/16 x 4-5/8 in. (15.7 x 11.7 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1998
Object Number:1998.106
Marking: Verso: monogram of Curtis Baer, stamped in black ink, lower right: B; Swiss customs stamp in red ink, lower right over small white paper label, numbered in blue ink: 21.
Curtis O. Baer
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. "Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer," January 11, 1958–February 25, 1958.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection," July 28, 1985–October 6, 1985.
Indianapolis Museum of Art. "Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection," January 14, 1986–May 2, 1986.
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. "Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection," March 27, 1986–May 11, 1986.
High Museum of Art. "Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection," May 31, 1986–August 24, 1986.
Walters Art Museum. "Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection," September 17, 1986–November 2, 1986.
Frederick Wight Gallery. "Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection," November 30, 1986–January 11, 1987.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," February 8–May 3, 1999.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," January 27–April 28, 2003.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 20, 2008–January 11, 2009.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years," May 26–September 8, 2019.
Los Angeles. J. Paul Getty Museum. "Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years," October 8, 2019–January 12, 2020.
Rouart and Wildenstein II.409
A. Chatté "Notes sur Manet, V. La Vente Manet en 1884 (4-5 Fev.)." Journal des Curieux. March 10, 1907, p. 12.
Théodore Duret, Emil Waldmann Edouard Manet. Berlin, 1910, p. 47, ill.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Bear Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge, Mass., 1958, cat. no. 48, ill.
Alain De Leiris The Drawings of Edouard Manet. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969, cat. no. 579, fig. no. 422, pp. 37, 137, ill.
Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein Édouard Manet, Catalogue Raisonné: Tome II: Pastels, aquarelles et dessins. Lausanne, Paris, 1975, cat. no. 409, p. 152, ill.
Eric Zafran Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 28-Oct. 6, 1985; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Jan. 14-May 2, 1986; High Museum of Art, May 31-Aug. 24, 1986 and 3 other institutions. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1985, cat. no. 82a, ill.
Colin B. Bailey, Joseph J. Rishel, Mark Rosenthal Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1989, fig. no. 12, pp. 128-130, ill.
Carmen C. Bambach, Colta Ives, Carolyn Logan, Nadine Orenstein, Perrin Stein "Recent Acquisitions, a selection: 1997-1998." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 2, New York, Autumn 1998, p. 49, ill.
Juliet Wilson Bareau Livres du Cabinet de Pierre Berès: Edouard Manet, lettre, Bellevue, 24 juillet [1880].. Musée Condé, Chantilly , Chantilly, Chantilly, 2003, Under entry for cat. no. 41., p. 114, ill.
Susan Alyson Stein, Colin B. Bailey, Mark Rosenthal The Annenberg Collection: Masterpeices of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Asher Ethan Miller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Edition. New York, 2009, Under entry for cat. no. 5., fig. no. 12, pp. 18,19, ill.
Manet and Modern Beauty The Artist's Last Years. Scott Allan , American, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019, cat. no. 31, p. 294.
Emily A. Beeny "Burlington Magazine" Evidence of Tracing in Manet's Late Watercolours. 161, December 2019, fig. no. 15, pp. 1024 and 1027, ill.
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