Polichinelle, 1874

Not on View

Medium

7-color lithograph on Japanese paper (first edition)

Dimensions

sheet: 53.4 x 35 cm (21 x 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Harris 1970, no. 80, State iii/iii [1st printing]

Accession Number

1947.7.85

Artists / Makers

Edouard Manet (artist) French, 1832 - 1883

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate just below image: Imp. Lemercier & Cie. Paris.; lower center in plate just below image: (Tiré à 25.); lower right in plate within image: Manet; lower right in plate just below image: No. 17 (numeral in graphite); lower center in plate: Féroce & rose avec du feu dans sa prunelle, / Effronté, saoul, divin, c'est lui Polichinelle! / Théodore de Banville.; by later hand, lower center in graphite: epreuve ancien très rare

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1947.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1966: Prints 1800-1945, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1966, no. 125.

1982: Manet and Modern Paris, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1982, no. 40.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 17.

Bibliography

1970: Harris, Jean C. Edouard Manet, graphic works; a definitive catalogue raisonne. New York: Collector's Editions, 1970.