About This Artwork

Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883

Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man, 1880

Watercolor, and brush and gray wash, on cream wove paper
201 x 123 mm
Not signed
Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, 1950.1520

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, The Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago," November 4-25, 1938, cat. 74, as Les Dineurs d’Hier.

Publication History

Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Histoire Catalographique (Paris, 1931), no. 85.

Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et Ses Oeuvres (Paris, 1947), no. 640 (ill.).

Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet (Berkley, 1969), no. 571 (ill.).

Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet Catalogue Raisonné, II (Lausanne, 1975), no. 585 (ill.).

Ownership History

Jacques Blot, Paris, 1930. Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed (Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman), Chicago, by 1938 [Chicago 1938]; given to the Art Institute, 1950.