Oysters
1862
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: 39.2 x 46.8 cm (15 7/16 x 18 7/16 in.)
framed: 60 x 67.6 x 8.9 cm (23 5/8 x 26 5/8 x 3 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1962.3.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gift from the artist to Suzanne Leenhoff Manet; (Manet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 February 1884, no. 90). Paul Michel Michel-Lévy, Paris; (Michel-Lévy sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 October 1889, no. 13). Paul Gallimard [1850-1929], Paris, by 1908;[1] sold 1920 to Charles Montag, Switzerland; sold to Emile Staub-Terlinden, Männendorf, Switzerland, by 1923; Staub-Terlinden collection;[2] sold 1943 through (Wildenstein, London and New York).[2] Dr. David M. [1892-1977] and Adele Rosenwald Levy [1892-1960], New York, by 1946;[3] gift 1962 to NGA.
[1] Described in Louis Vauxcelles, "Collection M.P. Gallimard," Les Arts (September 1908): 20.
[2] Treasury License no. 32476 dated January 1943 authorizing Wildenstein to transfer funds to the Staub-Terlinden family members, some of whom were Swiss citizens (National Archives RG131/Entry 247/Box 495, copy NGA curatorial files). The painting was reproduced in 1923 and 1926 articles about the Staub collection (La Renaissance ,August 1923, and "L'Art Français dans les Collections privées en Suisse. (Suite) La Collection Emile Staub," L'Amour de L'Art VII (1926): 44). The painting remained in Switzerland until 1938, when sent to an exhibition in Paris. From there it was shipped to New York and remained with Wildenstein until sold. (See National Archives RG131/Foreign Funds Control Investigative Report/Box 3, no. LA-10-39, copy NGA curatorial files)
[3] The painting was lent by Dr. and Mrs. Levy to a 1946 exhibition in New York.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1884
Exposition Manet, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1884, no. 18.
1903
Exposition d'Oeuvres de l'Ecole Impressionniste, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, April 1903, no. 25.
1912
Exposition d'art moderne a l'Hôtel de la Revue "Les Arts", Paris, 1912, no. 29, as Nature morte--Huitres.
1927
Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, Modernen Galerie Thannhauser im Berliner Kunstlerhaus, February 1927, no. 143, repro.
1928
Edouard Manet, Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, 1928, no. 6.
1930
Vincent van Gogh en zijn Tijdgenooten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1930, no. 212.
1932
Manet, Musée de L'Orangerie, Paris, 1932, no. 11.
1937
Chefs d'oeuvre de l'art français, Palais National des Arts, Paris, 1937, no. 355.
1938
La peinture française du XIXe siècle en Suisse, Paris, 1938, no. 61, repro.
1942
French Art of the Nineteenth Century, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, 1942, unnumbered catalogue.
1946
Paintings from New York Private Collections, The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, unnumbered checklist p. 6.
1961
The Mrs. Adele R. Levy Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961, unnumbered catalogue.
1986
Capolavori Impressionisti dei Musei Americani, Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples; Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 1986-1987, no. 23, repro.
Degas and His Friends, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 1986, no. 24.
1989
Manet, Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, 1989, no. 6, repro.
1990
Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 21, repro.
1992
From El Greco to Cézanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, 1992-1993, no. 42, repro.
1999
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.
Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 16, repro.
2000
Manet: The Still-Life Paintings, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 2000-2001, pl. 15.
Cézanne-Manet-Schuch. Drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst [Cézanne-Manet-Schuch. Three Paths toward Autonomous Art], Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund, 2000, no. 13, repro.
2011
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The National Art Center, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 2011, no. 23, repro.
2013
Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016, pl. 45.
Bibliography
1902
Duret, Théodore. Historie de Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre. Paris, 1902:202, no. 38.
1908
Vauxcelles, Louis. "Collection de M.P. Gallimard." Les arts 81 (September 1908): 20.
1909
Sainte-Croix, Camille de. Edouard Manet, Portraits d'Hier. Paris, 1909: 12.
1910
Duret, Théodore. Manet and the French Impressionists. Translated by J.E. Crawford Flitch. London and Philadelphia, 1910: 216, no. 38.
1912
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Edouard Manet. Munich, 1912:282
Alexander, A. "Exposition d'Art moderne." Les arts (August 1912): VIII, repro.
1913
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago, 1913:237
1919
Duret, Théodore. Historie de Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre. Paris, 1919:240, no. 38.
1926
"L'Art Français dans les Collections privées en Suisse: La Collection Emile Staub," L'Amour de L'Art VII (1926): 40, repro. 44.
1927
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Die Franzosen in Berlin." Cicerone 19 (1927): repro. 44.
1931
Tabarant, Adolphe. Manet: histoire catalographique. Paris, 1931:90, no. 60.
1932
Jamot, Paul, and Georges Wildenstein. Manet. 2 vols. Paris, 1932: 1:122, no. 57, repro.
George, Waldemar. "The Staub Collection at Maennendorf." Formes 25 (May 1932):271-272, repro.
1947
Florisoone, Michel. Manet. Monaco, 1947:16, repro.
Tabarant, Adolphe. Manet. Paris, 1947:58, 516, 535, no. 63.
1955
Bataille, Georges. Manet. Translated by Austryn Wainhouse and James Emmons. Lausanne, 1955: 44, repro.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 324, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 82.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 72, repro.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Early Impressionist Sales 1874-94 in the light of some unpublished 'procès-verbaux'." The Burlington Magazine 110 (June 1968): 342, no.90.
1970
Orienti, Sandra. The Complete Paintings of Manet. London, 1970: no. 54, repro.
1974
Chu, Petra Ten Doesschate. French Realism and the Dutch Masters: The Influence of Dutch Seventeenth-Century Paintings on the Development of French Painting between 1830 and 1870. Utrecht, 1974: 63, repro. 122.
1975
Rouart, Denis and Daniel Wildenstein. Edouard Manet, catalogue raisonné 2 vols. Lausanne and Paris, 1975:I:70, no. 63
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 210, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 453, no. 654, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 244, repro.
2006
Brettell, Richard R., and Stephen F. Eisenman. Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum. New Haven and London, 2006: 254, 255 fig. 67d.
2009
Matisse, 1917-1941. Exh. cat. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2009:66, 206.
2010
Parigi : gli anni meravigliosi : impressionismo contro Salon. Exh. cat. Castel Sismondo, Rimini. Treviso, 2010: 61.
Inscriptions
lower left: Ed. Manet
Wikidata ID
Q20188630