About This Artwork

Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883

Portrait of Alphonse Maureau, c. 1880

Pastel, with gouache, on canvas prepared with a gouache ground
547 x 452 mm
Inscribed lower right: "E.M."
Gift of Edward L. Brewster, 1950.123

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Ècole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, "Exposition des Oeuvres de Edouard Manet," January 1884, cat. 154.

London, Grafton, "A Selection from the Pictures by Boudin, Manet...," 1905, cat. 95.

Vienna, Miethke, "Manet-Manet," 1910, cat. 7.

Chicago, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brewster, "Special View for the benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster," January 20–22, 1933, cat. 15.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Edouard Manet," March 19-April 17, 1937, n.p., cat. 37.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Brewster," 1950, no cat.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Manet," January 13-19 February 1967, cat. 148.

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-July 24, 1989.

Publication History

L. Gonse, "Manet," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 29 (February 1884), p. 149 (ill.).

Theodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists (1902), no. 74.

Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists (London, 1910), p. 279, no. 74.

Julis Meier-Graefe, Edouard Manet (Munich, 1912), p. 327, no. 121.

Etienne Moreau-Nelaton, Manet, Raconté par lui-Même (Paris, 1926), I:108, II:98, no. 393, fig. 322.

Théodore Duret, Histoire de Edouard Manet et de son Oeuvre (Paris, 1926), p. 298.

Adolphe Tabarant, Manet, Histoire Catalographique (Paris, 1931), pp. 459-460, no. 19.

Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet (Paris, 1932), I:182, II:123, no. 528.

A. M. Frankfurter, "Manet First American Retrospective," Art News (March 20, 1937), p. 24.

Robert Rey, Manet (Paris, 1938), pp. 42 (ill.) and 162.

John Rewald, History of Impressionism (New York, 1946), pp. 381 and 448.

Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses Oeuvres (Paris, 1947), pp. 338 and 546.

Daniel Catton Rich, "The Kate L. Brewster Bequest," Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 44 (September 15, 1950), pp. 51-52.

Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1952), n.p.

Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 272.

Frederick A. Sweet, "Great Chicago Collectors," Apollo, 84 (September 1966), p. 203.

Anne Coffin Hanson, Edouard Manet (1966), pp. 160-161.

Merete Bodelsen, "Early Impressionist Sales 1874-1894," Burlington Magazine (June 1968), p. 342, no. 121.

Sandra Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Manet (New York, 1970), no. 265.

Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue Raisonné II (Paris, 1975), p. 2, no. 6 (ill.).

N. Harris, The Masterworks of Edouard Manet (1996).

Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (New York, 1997).

Ownership History

Estate of the artist, Paris; sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, February 4-5, 1884, lot 121, to Marcel Bernstein, Paris [Meier-Graefe 1912]. I. Tschoukine [Rouart and Wildenstein 1975]. Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1900 [Rouart and Wildenstein 1975]. Hébrard, 1903 [Rouart and Wildenstein 1975]. Georges Bernheim, Paris, 1924 [Rouart and Wildenstein 1975]; sold by Bernheim-Jeune and Company, Paris, to Walter (1872-1954) and Kate (1897-1947) Brewster, Chicago, March 13, 1925 [invoice]; by descent to their son, Edward L. Brewster, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1950.