Line in Front of the Butcher Shop (Queue devant la boucherie), 1870

Not on View

Medium

etching on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 16.9 × 14.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 13/16 in.)
plate: 23.7 × 16 cm (9 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

sheet: 53 × 35 cm (20 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Harris 1970, no. 70, State only

Accession Number

1950.16.100

Artists / Makers

Edouard Manet (artist) French, 1832 - 1883

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, in graphite, by later hand: MN 45; verso, lower center, in graphite, by later hand: Manet [underlined] / La Queue à la Boucherie / Siège de Paris / MN 45

Marks and Labels

verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d)

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia (Lugt 1932d); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1950.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1956: Prints by the French Impressionists from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.

1962: Etchings and Lithographs by Edouard Manet from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, no cat.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Line in Front of the Butcher Shop.

Bibliography

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