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Édouard Manet
Description
- Édouard Manet
- Pierrot danseur
- Pen and ink and watercolor on light blue paper
- 10 1/2 by 8 in.
- 26.7 by 20.4cm
Provenance
Mme. Forget and Alexandre Farra, Paris (1926)
Theodore Schempp, New York
Acquired from the above on April 15, 1954
Literature
Julius Meier-Graefe, Edouard Manet, Munich, 1912, discussed pp. 11-12
Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Manet, raconté par lui-même, vol. 1, Paris, 1926, illustrated fig. 2
André Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, 1947, discussed p. 22 and catalogued no. 542
Jacques Mathey, Graphisme de Manet, Paris, 1961, no. 7, illustrated
Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet, Berkeley, 1969, cat. no. 1, fig. no. 39, illustrated p. 53
Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, catalogue raisonné, pastels, aquarelles et dessins, vol. 2, Geneva, 1975, no. 450, illustrated p. 165
Catalogue Note
The subject of the present work is Pontillon, the brother-in-law of Berthe Morisot, who became good friends with Manet while serving at sea aboard the boat Le Havre et Guadeloupe.