About This Artwork
Henri Fantin-Latour
French, 1836-1904
Portrait of Édouard Manet1867/1880
Black crayon, with touches of charcoal, on cream wove paper
399 x 311 mm
Signed recto, lower left: "A mon ami Manet, Fantin"; inscribed recto, lower right: "A. Aristide Albert, son serviteur fidèle Léon Leenhoff"
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1967.595
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Paris, Durand-Ruel, "Fantin-Latour."
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. 60 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 118-119, cat. 57 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 8-September 11, 1978, cat. 33.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., "Paris Caf°," 1985.
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. 150-151, cat. 68 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-July 24, 1989 (Installation in Allerton gallery 225A).
Publication History
La Vie Moderne, 16 (April 17, 1880), p. 248 (ill.).
Carl von Lukow, Zeitfchrift fur Bildende Kunst (Leipzig, 1884), p. 31 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1968), p. 24.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 3A7.
Ownership History
Given by the artist to Edouard Manet [inscription]; by descent to Mme. Manet (née Suzanne Leenhoff) [according to Chicago 1978]; by descent to Leon Leenhoff (died 1927) [according to Chicago 1978]; given to Aristide Albert [inscription]. Princess de Polignac (probably née Winnaretta Singer) (died 1943) [according to dealer invoice]. Sold by Martin Fabiani, Paris, to Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1967 [according to letter from Marianne Feilchenfeldt's son, Walter, April 2002 in curatorial file]; sold by Mrs. Walter Feilchenfeldt to the Art Institute, 1967.