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  • Portrait of Édouard Manet
Date1864
MediumPastel with charcoal and watercolor on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 24 13/16 × 18 3/4 in. (63.1 × 47.7 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, museum purchase funded by the Audrey Jones Beck Accessions Endowment
Object number2025.231
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
222 Beck Galleries
On view

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ProvenanceEdouard Manet, Paris; his widow, Suzanne Leenhoff Manet, Paris; [Proust, 1900]; Baron Vita, Paris; Felix Bracquemond (1833-1914), Paris; his widow, Marie Bracquemond (1840-1916); by descent Pierre Braquemond (1870-1926); his widow, Marguerite Barbedette (1873-1958); by descent to their daughter, Marthe Bracquemond (1898-1973); by descent to her daughter, Nadine Angot (1921-2008); thence by descent (Nicolas Jundt, Idelette Jundt, and Armet Jundt); [Artcurial, Paris, Marie and Félix Bracquemond: Un couple au service des arts, part 1, April 30, 2024, lot 99]; [Agnew’s, Brussels, Belgium, 2024-2025]; purchased by MFAH, 2025.
Exhibition HistoryParis, Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Félix Bracquemond, Peintures, dessins, aquarelles, pastels, broderies, céramiques, objets d'art, gravures, ed. Léandre Vaillat, 1907, cat. 13.

Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Peintures, pastels, aquarelles, dessins et gravures de Félix Bracquemond, 20 May – June 1927, cat. 4.
Published References Frantz, Henri. “The Work of Félix Bracquemond”, in The Studio, no. 136, 1904, pp. 93- 103, illus. p. 94. Bouillon, Jean-Paul. “Manet vu par Bracquemond”, in La Revue de l’Art, no. 27, 1975, pp. 37-45, illus. cover, pp. 38, 41. Bouillon, Jean-Paul. “Les lettres de Manet à Bracquemond”, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, May-June 1983, pp. 145-158, illus. p. 147. Bouillon, Jean-Paul Bouillon, ed. Manet to Bracquemond: Newly Discovered Letters to an Artist and Friend. Paris: Fondation Custodia, 2020, pp. 6-17, illus. cover, pp. 1, 10. Bouillon, Jean-Paul. “Manet, Astruc, Bracquemond and the ‘Jing-Lar' Japonisme in Paris in the Latter Half of 1860s,” in Manet and Astruc, Friendship and inspiration, exh. cat., Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, 23 Oct 2021 – 26 Feb 2022), p. 86. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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