1934.36: Portrait of a Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1934.36

People

Edouard Manet, French (Paris 1832 - 1883 Paris)

Title

Portrait of a Man

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Portrait of a Blond Man / Study of a Blond Man / The Blond Man / L'Homme Blond

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1880

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231008

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Pastel on canvas

Dimensions

55.3 x 35.2 cm (21 3/4 x 13 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r. Manet
• inscription: center stretcher, blue chalk: 66
• inscription: verso, printed: 14976
• inscription: verso, on stretcher: Manet. no. 4414 / Geo. Moore / Nabb.
• label: verso, upper left, torn: Storage Record / Century of Progress

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

M. Groult. Auguste Pellerin. Joseph F. Flanagan, sold [through American Art Association, New York, January 14, 1920, lot 66]; to [Durand-Ruel, New York], sold; to Annie Swan Coburn, 1926, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Annie Swan Coburn

Accession Year

1934

Object Number

1934.36

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, [Unidentified book], no. 398
• Theodore Duret, Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre [1st ed.], Henri Floury (Paris, France, 1902), under "pastels," no. 75
• Theodore Duret, Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre [Nouvelle ed.], Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, France, 1909), under "pastels," no. 75
• E. Waldmann-Bremen, Theodore Duret, Edouard Manet sein leben und seine kunst (Berlin, Germany, 1910), no. 75, p. 319-320
• Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet (Paris, France, 1921), vol. 1 no. 428, vol. 2 fig. 259
• Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Historie catalographique, Éditions Montaigne (Paris, France, 1931), no. 43, p. 478
• Exhibition of The Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection Modern Paintings and Watercolors, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1932), no. 18, repr. p. 44
• "Acquisitions in the Museums", Parnassus (October 1934), vol. VI, p. 22, repr. p. 23
• Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1935), no. 30
• John Rewald, Edouard Manet Pastels, Bruno Cassirer (Oxford, England, 1947), pl. 17, p. 58
• Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres (Paris, France, 1947), no. 499, p. 400, repr.
• Anne V. Dort, "French Art of the 19th Century", Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Bulletin (Boston, MA, 1958 -1959), no. 21, p. 1316
• Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue Raisonné, La Bibliothèque des Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland and Paris, France, 1975), vol. 2, p. 12 as no. 31, repr.
• Ron Lister, Drawing with Pastels, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1982), p. 106 and fig. 2.5
• Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, repr. in b/w, fig. 37, p. 49
• Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 117, 246, repr. b/w cat. no. 349

Exhibition History

• Exposition Manet de la collection Pellerin, Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Munich, 01/01/1910 - 12/31/1910; Paul Cassirer Gallery, Berlin, 01/01/1910 - 12/31/1910; Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, 06/01/1910 - 06/17/1910
• Exhibition of the Mrs. L.L. Coburn Collection, Modern Paintings and Watercolors, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 04/06/1932 - 10/09/1932
• Independent Painters of 19th Century Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/15/1935 - 04/28/1935
• French and American Impressionism, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, 10/05/1956 - 11/04/1956
• French Art of the 19th Century, Symphony Hall, Boston, 03/24/1959 - 04/24/1959
• Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986

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