National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Still Life with Melon and Peaches
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lower right: Manet

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Provenance

Léopold Baugnée, Brussels; (Baugnée sale, Brussels, 22 March 1875, no. 44). (Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris) by 1910; sold probably through (Eugene Glaenzer, New York and Paris) by 1913 to Eugene [1875-1959] and Agnes Ernst Meyer [1887-1970], Mount Kisco, New York, and Washington, D.C.;[1] gift 1960 to NGA.

[1] Annotated copy of 1913 Durand-Ruel exhibition catalogue in NGA files. Regarding Glaenzer, see Agnes Ernst Meyer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Container 25, transcript in NGA curatorial files.

Exhibition History

1867
Tableaux de Edouard Manet, Avenue de l'Alma, Paris, 1867, no. 37
1913
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Edouard Manet 1832-1883, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1913, no. 17
1920
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1920, unnumbered catalogue
1921
Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1921, no. 63
1966
Edouard Manet, 1832-1883, Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1966-1967, no. 99, repro.
1978
The Second Empire 1852-1870: Art in France under Napoleon III, Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts; Grand Palais, Paris, 1978-1979, no. VI-81, repro.
1983
Manet, Grand Palais, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1983, no. 82, repro.
1986
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1986, no. 13, repro.
1989
Manet, Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, 1989, no. 16, repro.
1990
Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 23, repro.
1994
Origins of Impressionism, Galeries nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994-1995, no. 104, fig. 188, repro.
1999
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.
1999
Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 17, repro.
2000
Manet: The Still-Life Paintings, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 2000-2001, pl. 20.

Bibliography

1867
Zola, Emile. "Une Nouvelle Manière en peinture: Eduard Manet," L'Artiste 8 série, no. 14 (1867):50-51
1912
Hourticq, Edouard. Edouard Manet. Philadelphia and London, 1912:44, repro.
1912
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Edouard Manet. Munich, 1912:168, repro.
1913
Proust, A. "Erinnerungen an Edouard Manet," Kunst und Künstler XI (December 1913):140, repro.
1926
Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne. Manet raconté par lui-même. 2 vols. Paris, 1926: 89, 134.
1931
Tabarant, Adolphe. Manet: histoire catalographique. Paris, 1931:164-165
1932
Colin, Paul. Manet. Paris, 1932: plate xxi.
1932
Jamot, Paul and Georges Wildenstein. Manet Paris, 1932:I:34, 132: no. 181.
1938
Rey, Robert. Manet, New York and Paris, 1938:156
1947
Tabarant, Adolphe. Manet. Paris, 1947:130-131, 536
1955
Bataille, Georges. Manet. New York, 1955:44, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 81
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 72, repro.
1970
Orienti, Sandra. The Complete Paintings of Manet. London, 1970: no. 111
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 210, repro.
1975
Rouart, Denis and Daniel Wildenstein. Edouard Manet: catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. Lausanne, Paris, 1975: I: no. 121, repro.
1977
Hanson, Anne Coffin. Manet and the Modern Tradition. New Haven and London, 1977:70, rpeo. 29
1980
Hyland, Douglas K.S. "Agnes Ernst Meyer, Patron of American Modernism," The American Art Journal 12, no. 1 (Winter 1980): 71, repro. 76.
1980
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York, 1980:436, repro. 110.
1983
House, John. "Seeing Manet Whole," Art in America 71, no. 10 (November 1983):185, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 450, no. 651, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 244, repro.
1990
Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Exh. cat. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990: no. 23, repro.
1991
Coman, Florence E. Joi de Vivre: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1991: no. 9, repro.
1991
Wilson-Bareau, Juliet. Manet by Himself: Paintings, Pastels, Prints, and Drawings. London, 1991: 38, fig. 105.
1992
Stevenson, Lesley. Manet. New York, 1992:70, repro.
1993
Tinterow, Gary. The New Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993:repro. 13
1994
Pissarro, Joachim. "The Impressionists before Impressionism," The Burlington Magazine CXL no. 394 (Deember 1994):54
1995
Cezanne Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995-1996: repro. 113 under no. 18.
1997
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism, 1997, no. 84, repro.
2000
Jirat-Wasiutynski, Vojtech, and H. Travers Newton, Jr. Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin. Cambridge, 2000:27, repro.
2001
Rathbone, Eliza E. and George T.M. Shackelford, Impressionist Still Life. New York, 2001:28, repro.

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