The Races

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Prints and Drawings

1865/72

Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Édouard Manet
Title: The Races
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1865–1872
Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory chine, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left corner of secondary support, in graphite: “Epreuve avant le nom de Lemercier”; verso, lower left quadrant, in graphite (partially erased): “eps du 1er etat sur chine, / avant le nom de Lemercier / [illegible]”; lower left corner, in graphite: “WT (encircled)” and “MN 85 imp. d’essai.”
Dimensions: Image: 35.5 × 51.3 cm (14 × 20 1/4 in.); Primary support: 36.6 × 51.1 cm (14 7/16 × 20 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 47.2 × 63.9 cm (18 5/8 × 25 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1992.3
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Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre Gravé de Manet (Librairie Floury, 1944), n.p., under no. 72.
Juliet Wilson Bareau, “101. The Races,” in Manet, 1832–1883, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), p. 268, note 9.
Jay McKean Fisher, The Prints of Edouard Manet (International Exhibitions Foundation, 1985), p. 98.
“Manet, Cat. 13, The Races,” in Manet Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), https://publications.artic.edu/manet/reader/manetart/section/140020.

Germany, Ingelheim am Rhein, Edouard Manet: L’oeuvre grave, Apr. 30–June 19, 1977, p. 106–07, cat. 66.1.
Paris, Galerie Huguette Berès, Manet: Dessins, aquarelles, eaux-fortes lithographies, correspondance, 1978, n.p., cat. 76 (ill.).

Sold by Guillaume de Gontaut Biron, Marquis de Biron (1859–1939), Paris and Château de Biron, Monpazier, at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Apr. 13, 1910, lot. 95. Otto Gerstenberg (1848–1935), Berlin [his stamp (Lugt 2785), verso, lower left corner, in brown]; by descent to his daughter, Margarethe Scharf (1889–1961), Berlin; by descent to her son, Dieter Scharf (1926–2001), Hamburg. Private Collection, Switzerland. Sold by Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, to the Art Institute, Apr. 1992.

Guérin 72 I/II

Harris 41 I/III

Moreau-Nélaton 85 only state

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