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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1934.36
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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
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
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Provenance
M. Groult.
Auguste Pellerin.
Joseph F. Flanagan, Sold to Durand-Ruel, 1920.
American Art Association sale, January 14, 1920, no.
66.
Durand-Ruel, New York, Purchase from Flanagan sale,
1920, Sale to Annie Swan Coburn, 1926.
Annie Swan Coburn, Chicago, Purchase from DurandRuel, 1926, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1934. Mrs
Coburn paid $3000 in 1926.
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
[email protected]
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
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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 (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, exh.
cat., Abbeville Press/Harvard University Art Museums
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(New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, 1985), 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
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff
but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
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