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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.259
People
Attributed to Edouard Manet, French (Paris 1832 - 1883 Paris)
Title
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of the Composer Emmanuel Chabrier
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1881
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230200

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65.09 x 53.34 cm (25 5/8 x 21 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Emmanuel Chabrier, Paris, 1881, by descent?; to André Chabrier, by descent?; to Mme. Chabrier-Breton, Avignon [1] sold; to [Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris]. Allard, Paris. Chester Dale, New York, 1932, sold; to [Wildenstein & Company, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1933, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Notes
[1] See Tabarant, 1947, p. 421

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.259
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Julius Meier-Graefe, Edouard Manet, R. Piper & Co Verlag (Munich, Germany, 1912), pp. 250, 252
  • Georges Servières, Emmanuel Chabrier 1841-1894, F. Alcan (Paris, France, 1912), repr.
  • Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Histoire Catalographique, Ed. Montaigne (Paris, France, 1931), no. 366, p. 407
  • Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet, Les Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1932), vol. I, 174, no. 453, repr. vol. II, 47, fig. 119
  • Edouard Manet: Retrospective Loan Exhibition, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, NY, 1937), no. 35, repr.
  • Centenaire de la naissance de Chabrier, Opera-Comique (Paris, France, 1941), repr. as frontispiece; p. 25
  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 11
  • Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres (Paris, France, 1947), no. 392, p. 543, text p. 421-422, repr.
  • Roger Delage, "Chabrier et ses amis Impressionistes", L'oeil (December 1963), no. 17, p. 21; repr. p. 17
  • Yvonne Tiénot, Chabrier, par lui-même et par ses intimes (Paris, 1965), repr. facing p. 64
  • Edward Lockspeiser, "Music and Painting: Chabrier, Debussy and the Impressionists", Apollo (January 1966), pp. 10-11, repr.
  • Sandra Orienti, L'Opera Pittorica di Édouard Manet (Milan, Italy, 1967), no. 354
  • Paolo Lecaldano, ed., The Complete Paintings of Manet, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1967), repr.
  • Rollo Myers, Emmanuel Chabrier and His Circle (London, England, 1969), pp. 5-6, 154, repr. as pl. 6
  • Denis Rouart and Sandra Orienti, Tout L'Oeuvre Peint d'Edouard Manet (Paris, France, 1970), no. 358
  • Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue Raisonné, La Bibliothèque des Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland and Paris, France, 1975), no. 364, p. 272, repr. p. 273
  • Francis Poulenc, Emmanuel Chabrier (London, England, 1981), repr. b/w pp. 28 and 29
  • Roger Delage, Chabrier (Geneva, Switzerland, 1982), pp. 10-11, repr. as pl. 33
  • Roger Delage, "Manet et Chabrier", Revue de l'Art (1983), no. 62, pps. 65-70, repr. in b/w p. 67, no. 4
  • Richard Traubner, "Chabrier's Operas Make a Case for Popularity", The New York Times (New York, NY, April 7, 1985), Arts & Entertainment section, p. 25, repr. in b/w
  • Kathleen Adler, Manet, Phaidon Press (Oxford, England, 1986), pp. 158-159, fig. 144
  • Anne Distel, Les Collectionneurs des Impressionistes: Amateurs et marchands, La Bibliothèque des Arts (Paris, France, 1989), repr. in color, no. 195, p. 221
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 117; repr. as no. 353
  • Anne Distel, Impressionism: The First Collectors (New York, NY, 1990), p. 217, repr. as fig. 195
  • Eric Darragon, Manet, Editions Citadelles (Paris, France, 1991), repr. in color fig. 254, p. 349
  • Stewart Buettner and Reinhard G. Pauly, Great Composers, Great Artists: Portraits, Amadeus Press (Portland, OR, 1992), repr. in color p. 105, text p. 104
  • Roger Delage, Emmanuel Chabrier (Paris, 1999), p. 138
  • Mariko Kaneda, "Selected Piano Works of Emmanuel Chabrier: A Stylistic Analysis" (2001), Unpublished, repr. as frontispiece, p. xiv
  • Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Macmillan Company and MacMillan (London, 2001), repr. p. 404 as fig. 1, with entry on Chabrier
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 87, pp. 221-223, repr. in color
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 87, pp. 230-232, repr. in color
  • Peter G. Davis, A Composer With a Gift For Surprise, The New York Times, pp. 8-9, July 22, 2012, pp. 8-9, reproduced p. 8 [in color]

Exhibition History

  • Edouard Manet: Retrospective Loan Exhibition, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 03/19/1937 - 04/17/1937
  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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