Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1880

Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Édouard Manet
Title: Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man
Origin: France
Date: 1880
Medium: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and graphite on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper right, in brown ink and graphite: “Bellevue/sur mer/Lundi/16 août 80.”; lower right, in brown ink: “Les dineurs d’hier/ecrivez-moi”
Dimensions: 201 × 124 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
Reference Number: 1950.1520
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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.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 69, no. 4A9.
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 69, no. 4A9.
“Manet, Cat. 20, Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man,” 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.

Chicago, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, An Exhibition of Original Drawings and Lithographs by Modern Masters, Nov. 10–30, 1931 (ill.).
Chicago, The Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, Nov. 4–25, 1938, cat. 74.
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, “Manet and Modern Beauty”, October 8, 2019 - January 12, 2020, The Art Institute of Chicago, May 26 - September 8, 2019, cat. 46, 108, 229 (ill.), 299-300, cat. by Scott Allan, Emily A. Beeny, Gloria Groom, et. al.

Jacques Blot, Paris, 1930–at least 1931. Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago, by Nov. 1931 [Chicago 1931 exh. cat.]. Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, also known as Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago and New York, by 1938 [Chicago 1938 exh. cat.]. Given by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

Cat. 20 Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man, 1880

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