A Young Lady in 1866
A Young Lady in 1866 or Lady with a Parakeet is an 1866 painting by Édouard Manet, showing his favourite model Victorine Meurent, wearing a pink gown, holding a small bouquet of violettes and accompanied by an African Grey Parrot. It is an oil painting on canvas measuring 185.1 x 128.6 cm, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It and Boy Carrying a Sword were the first of Manet's works to enter a gallery collection.[1]
It was first exhibited in the May 1867 exhibition of his works on the Avenue de l'Alma (now the Avenue George-V) in Paris as catalogue number 15, with the title Jeune dame en 1866.[2] At the 1868 Paris Salon, the work's realism and inclusion of a parakeet was reminiscent of Gustave Courbet's 1866 Woman with a Parrot (Metropolitan Museum of Art), a nude which had caused a scandal at that year's Salon. Manet's work was similarly criticised and the public came to nickname it Lady with a Parakeet, although it had been exhibited as Lady in Pink, then as A Young Lady or Young Lady in 1866.
Provenance
Manet sold it to the art dealer Durand-Ruel in January 1872 for 1500 francs. He in turn sold it on to the textile magnate, art collector and friend of Claude Monet Ernest Hoschedé five years later for 2,000 or 2,500 francs. Hoschedé sold it at the hôtel Drouot on 6 June 1878 for 700 francs to Henri Hecht. It then returned to Durand-Ruel, who sold it to J. Alden Weir on behalf of Erwin Davis in 1881. Davis in turn sold it as Feeding the Parrot through the dealer John Ortgies in a sale on 19 and 20 March 1889 in New York[3] and bought it back for 1350 dollars.
It was donated the Metropolitan Museum, together with Manet's Boy Carrying a Sword and Jules Bastien-Lepage's Joan of Arc, by Erwin Davis in a letter to the president of its paintings committee on 21 March 1889.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Boy with a Sword".
- ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition History.
- ^ John Ortgies (1836–1908).
- ^ "Mr. Erwin Davis's Pictures".
Bibliography
- Philippe Bonnefis, Mesures de l'ombre : Baudelaire, Flaubert, Laforgue et Verne, Presses universitaires de Lille, coll. « Objet », 1987 (ISBN 2-85939-302-1)
- Théodore Duret (1838–1927), Histoire d'Édouard Manet et de son œuvre, Nabu Press, 7 décembre 2013, 402 p., broché (ISBN 978-1295354252 et 129535425X)
- Émile Zola (édition présentée et établie par Jean-Pierre Leduc-Adine), Pour Manet, éditions Complexe, coll. « Le Regard littéraire », 1989 (ISBN 2-87027-306-1, ASIN B003BPKOWA)
External links
- Description at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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- Christ the Gardener (1856–1859)
- The Absinthe Drinker (1859)
- Spanish Cavaliers (1859)
- Portrait of Madame Brunet (1860)
- Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Manet (1860)
- The Spanish Singer (1860)
- Boy Carrying a Sword (1861)
- La Nymphe surprise (1861)
- The Street Singer (1862)
- Music in the Tuileries (1862)
- The Old Musician (1862)
- Portrait of Victorine Meurent (1862)
- Mademoiselle V. in the Costume of an Espada (1862)
- Little Lange (1862)
- The Luncheon on the Grass (1863)
- La Négresse (1863)
- Olympia (1863)
- Young Man Dressed as a Majo (1863)
- The Dead Man (1864))
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- Jesus Insulted by the Soldiers (1865)
- Bullfight (1865–66)
- Bullfight – Death of the Bull (1865)
- The Matador Saluting (1866)
- The Fifer (1866)
- A Young Lady in 1866 (1866)
- The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (1867)
- Portrait of Emile Zola (1868)
- Boy Blowing Bubbles (1868)
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- Chez le Père Lathuille (1879)
- Portrait of Marguerite Gauthier-Lathuille (1879)
- In the Conservatory (1879)
- Madame Manet in the Conservatory (1879)
- The Waitress (1879)
- Corner of a Café-Concert (1879)
- The Café-Concert (1879)
- Self-Portrait with Palette (1879)
- A Bundle of Asparagus (1880)
- A Sprig of Asparagus (1880)
- Portrait of Countess Albazzi (1880)
- Portrait of Monsieur Pertuiset the Lion-Hunter (1881)
- Dead Eagle Owl (1881)
- The Rabbit (1881)
- Rochefort's Escape (1881)
- Spring (1881)
- Autumn (1882)
- A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882)
- The House at Rueil (1882)
- Flowers in a Crystal Vase (1882)
- White Lilacs in a Glass Vase (1882)
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