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

1870

Edouard Manet

Associated Names
Edouard Manet

Artist, French, 1832 - 1883

This print is an abstract depiction of a group of people holding umbrellas. The people are indistinct, depicted with fine, dark lines and no visible limbs or features. Above them are numerous umbrellas. The people cast dark shadows on the ground. One section in the center of the print, in the middle of the group of people, is mostly blank, suggesting an area of light or reflection. The background is mostly blank, tan paper, with one section of vertical black lines behind the figures and umbrellas on the right.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.16.100

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Harris 1970, no. 70, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q65222736

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