Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
3 v. (each 94 p.), bound : ill. (photographs) ; 29.6 cm
Elizabeth Anne McCauley notes that Fernand Lochard was listed in contemporary directories as a "merchant handling photographic equipment," not a photographer, and had a shop at 39 rue Laval from 1871 to after 1886.--Cf. her A.A.E. Disdéri and the Carte De Visite Portrait Photograph (New Haven: Yale UP, 1985), n. 106.
Following Manet's death, an official inventory of works in Manet's studio at the time of his death was compiled by notaries to prepare for the auction of his estate in Feburary, 1884. Léon Leenhoff decided to supplement the official inventory by having all of the works photographed and by creating a personal manuscript register of the works.--Cf. Stuckey, p. 169-170.
Léon Leenhoff's manuscript register describes 325 pictures (the inventory pages are stamped 1-306, 308-307); it is not known to what reference the numbering ascribed to the additional photographs in the Lochard albums refers.--Cf. Stuckey, p. 170-171.
Leenhoff's and Tabarant's hands have been identified by Juliet Wilson-Bareau in typed notes (1 p.) dated 1989. In this document Wilson-Bareau also identifies the relationship between the notes in Leenhoff's manuscript register (original held at the Bibliothéque Nationale) and the notes on the album pages.--Cf. collection files and finding aid.
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.
After Manet's death in 1883, Fernand Lochard was hired by Léon Koella Leenhoff to photograph all the works in Manet's studio as well as some works from other locations. The photographs were then inserted into four albums (of which the Morgan holds three), and the photographs were numbered 1-444 apparently based on the numbers assigned to the works by Léon Leenhoff in his manuscript register of works by Edouard Manet (original held at the Bibliothéque Nationale, France). The volumes are comprised of stiff album pages, onto which Lochard's photographs have been mounted. The Leenhoff register numbers were probably added after the photographs were inserted into the album because the photographs are not arranged in this numerical order. Each leaf is foliated consecutively (in addition to the Leenhoff numbers) in the upper-left corner and notes, to varying degrees of detail, are written below and around the image. The notes were transcribed onto the album leaves by Leenhoff, based on the notes in his manuscript register. Later penciled notes, containing further provenance, exhibition and sale information, were probably added by Adolphe Tabarant. Each album contains 88 photographs with notes, and the photographs in each volume are preceded by six pages of notes, primarily listing the contents of the album by original medium, by Leenhoff.
Blue cloth drop-spine boxes (31.7 cm)