Suzanne Manet's Notebook, 1892–1900
This small notebook was used by Suzanne Manet, Édouard Manet's widow, to record the sales of paintings and drawings during the years 1892 to 1900. Many notes include the names of buyers and the amounts paid. There are also entries about revenues from property holdings and the deaths of the family members Berthe Morisot and Édouard Vibert.. The notebook has been flipped and written in from both sides, front to back and back to front. Only about thirty-two pages of the notebook were used, and the blank pages have not been imaged. In addition, some pages were cut out of the notebook, and the stubs of some of those pages are visible. One page contains what may be a sketch by Manet.
Provenance of the notebook
Suzanne’s notebook is part of a large collection of materials related to Manet, including more than one hundred letters, household accounts, books from Manet’s library, and photograph albums, owned in the early 20th century by the scholar Adolphe Tabarant. The collection contains Manet’s only surviving sketchbook, as well as the Lochard and Godet albums.
The collection was sold in 1960 by his daughter, Lucienne Tabarant (1898-1989), to the American writer and editor Mina Kirstein Curtiss (1896–1985), who was working on a biography of Manet that remained incomplete at her death. The Morgan Library & Museum purchased the Tabarant collection in 1974 as the gift of Jane Engelhard (1917–2004) and her children in memory of her husband, Charles W. Engelhard Jr. (1917–1971).
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MA 3950.2:2, front cover
Carnet de comptes : autograph notes
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974
MA 3950.2:2, inside front cover–front insert recto
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MA 3950.2:2, front insert verso–front endpaper [p.i recto]
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Carnet de comptes : autograph notes
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MA 3950.2:2, front endpaper [p.i verso]–fol. 1r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 1v–2r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 2v–3r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 3v–4r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 4v–5r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 5v–6r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 6v–7r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 7v–8r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 8v–9r
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MA 3950.2:2, fol. 9r insert
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Fols. 9–15 are blank and not digitized
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 15v–16r
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MA 3950.2:2, fol. 16r insert
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Fols. 16–26 are blank and have not been digitized
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 26v–27r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 27v–28r
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MA 3950.2:2, fol. 28r insert
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Fols. 28-33 are blank and have not been digitized
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 33v–34r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 34v–35r, stubs 1
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(writing is upside down), two torn pages in gutter
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 34v–35r, stubs 2
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 34v–35r, stubs 3
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 35v–36r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 36v–37r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 37v–38r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 38v–39r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 39v–40r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 40v–41r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 41v,–42r
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MA 3950.2:2, fols. 42v,–43r
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MA 3950.2:2, back endpaper [p.ii recto]–back endpaper [p.ii verso]
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Carnet de comptes : autograph notes
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MA 3950.2:2, back cover
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Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974