About This Artwork

Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883

Study of a Seated Nude (La Toilette), c. 1862

Red chalk on buff laid paper
280 x 200 mm
Signed lower right, in pencil: "E. Manet"
Restricted gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, 1967.30

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, "Exposition Édouard Manet," January 1884, hors cat.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Exhibition of French Art 1200-1900," 1932, p. 461, cat. 993.

Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, "Manet," 1932, p. 79, cat. 106.

Paris, Palais National des Arts, "Chefs d’oeuvre de l’art Français," 1937, cat. 686.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Edouard Manet," 1966, cat. 196; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 148-49, cat. 73 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 54 (ill.).

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 112-13, cat. 53 (ill.).

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, "Édouard Manet Retrospective," April 22-August 1, 1983, pp. 91-92, cat. 24 (ill.), as Après le Bain; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 10-November 27, 1983.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 146-47, cat. 66 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.

London, Courtauld Institute Galleries, "Manet’s Working Methods," April 22-June 15, 1986.

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1-July 24, 1989.

The Art Institute of Chicago, August 3, 1996-January 27, 1997.

Publication History

Antonin Proust, "Édouard Manet," La Revue Blanche (February 15, 1897), p. 168.

Robert Rey, Choix de 64 dessins de Manet (Paris, 1932), fig. 10 (ill.).

Gotthard Jedlicka, Édouard Manet (Zurich, 1941), pp. 241-242 and 251 (ill.).

Bernhard Degenhart, Europäische Handzeichnungen (Berlin, 1943), p. 193, no. 164.

Douglas Cooper, The Courtauld Collection (London, 1954), p. 143, no. 140.

Robert Rey, Manet (Paris, after 1955), p. 86 (ill.).

Jacques Mathey, Graphisme de Manet: essai de catalogue raisonné des dessins (Paris, 1961), pp. 14-15 and 27, no. 50 (ill.).

M. Schmierer and R. Verdi, Art Quarterly (Fall-Winter 1967), p. 244 (ill.).

Art Quarterly (Winter 1967), pp. 268 and 280.

Jean Selz, 19th Century Drawings and Watercolors (New York, 1968), p. 136.

Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Édouard Manet (Berkley, 1969), pp. 19, 31, 59-61 and 64, fig. 44.

Jean Harris, Édouard Manet: Graphic Works (New York, 1970), no. 20.

Maurice and Arlette Sérullaz, I disegni dei Maestri: l’Ottocento Francese (Milan, 1970), p. 91 (ill.).

Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Édouard Manet: Catalogue Raisonné 2 (Lausanne, 1975), no. 363 (ill.).

Colin Eisler, The Seeing Hand: A Treasury of Great Master Drawings (New York, 1976), p. 105 (ill.).

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 19th Century (Chicago, 1979), pp. 66-67, no. 4A3.

Juliet Wilson Bareau, "The Hidden Faces of Manet, An Investigation of the Artist’s Working Processes," The Burlington Magazine (1986), no. 11 (ill.).

Ownership History

Alphonse Dumas, by 1884 [Paris 1983]. Auguste Pellerin, Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 7, 1926, Pellerin sale, lot 35, to Marcel Guerin (died 1948), Paris [Paris 1983]; by descent to Mme. Indig-Guerin [Paris 1983]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1967.