BIB_ID
281687
Accession number
MA 3950
Display Date
19th-20th centuries
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard and children in memory of Charles W. Engelhard, 1974.
Notes
Digital facsimiles are available for the following items in the collection: the Lochard albums (MA 3950.1:1. MA 3950.1:2, MA 3950.1:3); the Godet albums (MA 3950.1:4, MA 3950.1:5); Édouard Manet's notebook (MA 3950.2:1); and Suzanne Manet's notebook (MA 3950.2:2).
Previously described in an inventory created around 1959 by Liliane Yacoel Ziegel, on behalf of Mina Kirstein Curtiss. The inventory and other materials apparently assembled by Adolphe Tabarant and Mina Curtiss in the course of their research on Manet are housed in the supplemental section (MA 3950.4).
Previously described in an inventory created around 1959 by Liliane Yacoel Ziegel, on behalf of Mina Kirstein Curtiss. The inventory and other materials apparently assembled by Adolphe Tabarant and Mina Curtiss in the course of their research on Manet are housed in the supplemental section (MA 3950.4).
Provenance
From the collection of Adolphe Tabarant (1863-1950); by descent to his daughter Lucienne Tabarant and sold by her to Mina Curtiss (1896-1985) in 1960; purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard in 1974.
Summary
A large collection of materials related to the life and work of the painter Édouard Manet. Some materials are from Manet's lifetime, but the bulk of the collection documents the period immediately after his death, including the posthumous exhibition of his works at the École des Beaux-Arts on January 6-30, 1884, the auction at Hôtel Drouot from February 4-5, 1884 and the memorial banquet held January 5, 1885 at the P̀ere Lathuille. The collection includes heavily annotated albums of photographs of artworks left in Manet's estate after his death (known in Manet scholarship as the Lochard and Godet albums); notebooks (among them Manet's only surviving personal notebook); and nearly four hundred letters and documents. There are significant groups of materials from Théodore Duret, Léon Leenhoff, Suzanne Manet, Claude Monet, and Antonin Proust. Other painters and writers from Manet's circle are also represented, among them Degas, Mallarmé, Pissarro, Renoir, and Zola. Detailed provenance information for artworks by Manet is present in the albums and to some extent in the letters and documents.
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