About This Artwork

Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883

La Rue Mosnier (now La Rue de Barne), c. 1878

Brush and tusche, over graphite, on papier vegetal transfer paper, laid
down on cream wove paper
279 x 442 mm
Gift of Mrs. Alice H. Patterson given in memory of Tiffany Blake, 1945.15

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Matthiesen Gallery, "A Century of French Drawings," cat. 101.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 20, cat. 34, pl. XIV, cat. by Carl Schniewind.

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, "De David à Toulouse-Lautrec," 1955, cat. 83 (ill.).

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17- November 30, 1963, cat. 99.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Edouard Manet," January 13-February 19, 1967, pp. 156-157, cat. 142 (ill.); traveled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 3-December 11, 1966.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 30 (ill.).

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. 56 (ill.).

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 116-117, cat. 55 (ill.).

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Manet and Modern Paris," December 5, 1982-March 6, 1983, pp. 238-239, cat. 87.

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Edouard Manet," April 22-August 1, 1983, p. 401, cat. 160 (ill.); traveled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 10-November 27, 1983.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay, "Manet, Monet: La Gare Saint-Lazare," 1998, pp. 133-134, cat. 38, fig. 118, cat. by Juliet Wilson-Bareau; traveled to Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, June 14-September 20, 1998.

Publication History

Edouard Manet: Reproductions (Munich, 1922).

John Rewald, "Paysages de Paris de Corot à Utrillo," La Renaissance (January-February 1937), p. 19 (ill.).

Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 39:3 (April-May 1945), p. 7.

Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947), pp. 282-283, no. 141 (ill.).

Regina Schoolman and Charles Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (New York, 1950), p. 174, pl. 98.

Jacques Mathey, Graphisme de Manet (Paris, 1961), p. 32, no. 121 (ill.).

J. Breckinridge, "Inspired Artists show off top works," Illustrated Chicago's American (July 29, 1962).

"Edouard Manet: Dessins," L'Ephémère 6 (1968), p. 23 (ill.).

Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet (Berkeley, 1969), pp. 33-34, 78, and 131, no. 502, fig 24.

Jean Leymarie, Impressionist Drawings from Manet to Renoir (Geneva, 1969), pp. 34-35 (ill.).

Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue Raisonné 2 (Lausanne and Paris, 1975), no. 327 (ill.).

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century II (Chicago, 1979), pp. 68-69, no. 4A8.

Jean Leymarie, Genevieve Monnier, and Bernice Rise, Drawing (New York, 1979), p. 192 (ill.).

Nicholas Wadley, Impressionism and the Art of Drawing (1991).

Ownership History

Manet estate [Lugt 880]. Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 28-29, 1917, lot 240 to Paul Rosenberg (1881-1959), Paris [email from Edouard Sebline, July 14, 2004 in the curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1945.