The Melon

c. 1880

Edouard Manet

Artist, French, 1832 - 1883

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • 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


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