Edouard Manet
L'Exécution de Maximilien (The Execution of Maximilian)

L'Exécution de Maximilien (The Execution of Maximilian)

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L'Exécution de Maximilien (The Execution of Maximilian)
ArtistFrench, 1832–1883
CultureFrench
Titles
  • L'Exécution de Maximilien (The Execution of Maximilian)
Datec. 1867–1868, possibly printed 1868
PlaceFrance
MediumLithograph with scraping, printed chine collé on heavy wove paper, state I/III, trial proof, before lettering
DimensionsSheet: 13 1/4 × 17 1/4 in. (33.7 × 43.8 cm)
 Mount: 13 5/8 × 20 1/16 in. (34.6 × 51 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Louis K. Adler, Allen H. Carruth, Morton A. Cohn, Peter R. Coneway, Robert J. Cruikshank, Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., Meredith J. Long, Patrick R. Rutherford, Fayez Sarofim, and Gene M. Woodfin at "One Great Night in November, 1991"
Object number91.1567
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Drawing on Stone: The History of Lithography," McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, September 19–November 7, 1993.

"Masterworks of Lithography," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 12–May 8, 2005.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed lower left corner of image: "Manet".
Catalogue raisonnéGuerin 73; Harris 54 (I/III); Isaacson 54; Fisher 49

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