Lot 116
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ÉDOUARD MANET | Vaches au pâturage

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Édouard Manet
  • Vaches au pâturage
  • Signed Manet. (lower right)
  • Oil on panel
  • 4 7/8 by 8 1/2 in.
  • 12.4 by 21.6 cm
  • Painted in Berck in 1873.

Provenance

Hoschedé Collection, Paris (and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 5 & 6, 1878, lot 47)
Georges de Bellio, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Donop de Monchy Collection, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 5, 2008, lot 221)
Acquired at the above sale 

Literature

Letter from General Loysel to Manet, April 12, 1876
Théodore Duret, Histoire d'Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre, avec un catalogue des peintures et des pastels, Paris, 1902, no. 287 (dated 1871)
Paul Jamot & Georges Wildenstein, Manet, Catalogue Critique, vol. I, Paris, 1932, no. 198; vol. II, illustrated p. 217
Adolphe Tabarant, Manet, Histoire cartographique, Paris, 1947, no. 200
Sandra Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Manet, New York, 1967, no. 170, illustrated p. 101 (with incorrect provenance)
Remus Niculescu, "Georges de Bellio, l'ami des Impressionistes," in Revue roumaine d'histoire de l'art, vol. I, Paris, 1970, no. 2, illustrated p. 266
Denis Rouart & Sandra Orienti, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Édouard Manet, Paris, 1970, no. 170, illustrated p. 101
Denis Rouart & Daniel Wildenstein, Édouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Paris, 1975, no. 198, mentioned p. 142; vol. II, pl. 462, illustrated p. 217 (dated 1871)
Manet, The Execution of Maximilian, Paintings, Politics and Censorship (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Art, London, 1992, n.n., illustrated pp. 35 & 82

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The panel is sound. Some extremely minor frame abrasion to the top and bottom edges. Under UV light: There is a single strokes of inpainting to the center of the top edge.
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Catalogue Note

From the mid-1860s, Manet and his family would spend several weeks each summer staying at Berck-sur-mer or another nearby town. Advertised as three short hours from Paris by train, these rural settings inspired some of Manet's most inventive works, including the present panel and Sur la plage à Berck, now in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay (see fig. 1). These respites—both personal and creative—allowed Manet to experiment more radically in advance of the first Impressionist Exhibition in 1874. Vaches au pâturage reflects Manet's technique of working en plein air, capturing an ephemeral moment with quick brushstrokes.