The Melon
c. 1880
Artist, French, 1832 - 1883

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 46.67 × 56.52 cm (18 3/8 × 22 1/4 in.)
framed: 71.44 × 80.65 × 8.57 cm (28 1/8 × 31 3/4 × 3 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2014.18.29
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sold by the artist to M. Pertuiset, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 June 1888, no. 3); bought by Isidore Bloch or Hermann Paechter, Berlin. Max Liebermann [1847-1935], Berlin, before 1925; his daughter, Mrs. Kurt Riezler [née Käthe Liebermann, 1885-1952], Berlin and later New York.[1] (Wildenstein and Co., New York); sold 1959 to Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].
[1] Name mistakenly recorded as Liezler in Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet, 2 vols., Paris, 1932: 1:no. 386.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1884
Exposition Manet, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1884, no. 91.[1]
1925
Exposition des Impressionnistes, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1925.
1928
Ausstelllung Edouard Manet, Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, 1928, no. 94.
1932
Exhibition of French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 464.
1954
Vier eeuwen stilleven in Frankrijk, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 1954, no. 88.
1966
French paintings from the collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 44, repro.
Bibliography
1932
Jamot, Paul, and Georges Wildenstein. Manet. 2 vols. Paris, 1932: 1:no. 386, fig. 440.
1954
Bloch, Vitale. "Four Centuries of Still Life in France." The Burlington Magazine 96 (September 1954): 289, fig. 28.
1973
Janda, Karl-Heinz, and Annegret Janda. "Max Liebermann als Kunstsammler." Forschungen und Berichte 15 (1973): 103-149.
1988
Paul, Barbara. "Drei Sammlungen französischer impressionistischer Kunst im kaiserlichen Berlin - Bernstein, Liebermann, Arnhold." _ Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft_ 42 (1988): 17, repro.
1997
Natter, G. Tobias, and Julius H. Schoeps, intro. Max Liebermann und die französischen Impressionisten. Published in conjuction with an exhibition at the Jüdisches Museum, Vienna. Düsseldorf, 1997: 216, repro., 241.
Inscriptions
lower right: Manet
Wikidata ID
Q20188862