Édouard Manet [photograph].

Record ID: 
446807
Accession number: 
MA 3950
Created: 
[Paris] : [Goupil et Cie], [19th century]
Credit: 
Purchased as the gift of the Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description: 
1 photographic print ; image: 11.8 x 8 cm; mount: 36.5 x 23.8 cm
Notes: 

Photographic print mounted on a photoglyptic engraving; text on verso.
Detached from "Galerie contemporaine, litteraire, artistique", a French weekly (1876-1885?) published by Goupil et Cie.
Verso of mount features facsimile text and signature; text below titled "Manet (Édouard) / né a Paris en 1833" with two columns of text in French on the life of Manet.
Printed signature at top of photoglypte: "Grasset".
Library's copy lacks publication information on lower recto.

Summary: 

Half length seated portrait of Édouard Manet (1832-1883), French artist, facing the camera, eyes looking left, arms folded across his chest.

Provenance: 
Léon Leenhoff; acquired by Adolphe Tabarant; by descent to his daughter Lucienne Tabarant and sold by her to Mina Curtiss in 1960; purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard in 1974.
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