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| adame Édouard Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1830–1906) |
Artist:Édouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)
Date:ca. 1873
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:39 1/2 x 30 7/8 in. (100.3 x 78.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967
Manet undertook only six portraits of his wife, the Dutch pianist Suzanne Leenhoff, in the years after their marriage in 1863. Half were left unfinished, including the present work, providing rare insight into the artist’s technique. He sketched the figure and background with broad strokes, then turned to the facial features, scraping off the face at least twice, before eventually abandoning the picture.
Provenance
M. Paul François Marie Antoine Ménard-Dorian, Paris (in 1902); Mme Louise Aline Ménard-Dorian, Paris (by 1910–d. 1929; her sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 2, 1929, no. 12, for Fr 155,000 to Durand-Ruel); [Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, 1929–35; New York stock no. 5141; sold on February 20, 1935, for $11,500 to de Groot]; Adelaide Milton de Groot, New York (1935–d. 1967; on loan to MMA, 1936)
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