Edouard Manet

Hoschedé Collection (sale: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 5-6, 1878, lot 47)
Georges de Bellio (acquired at the above sale)
Collection Donop de Monchy, Paris
Bernheim-Jeune & Cie., Paris
Acquired from the above by the mother of the present owner

Théodore Duret, Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre, avec un Catalogue des peintures et des pastels, Paris, 1902, no. 287
Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, Manet raconté par lui-meme, Paris, 1926, no. 169
Paul Jamot & Georges Wildenstein, Manet, Catalogue critique, Paris, 1932, vol. I, no. 198, catalogued p. 142; vol. II,  fig. 462, illustrated p. 217
Adolphe Tabarant, Manet, Histoire cartographique, Paris, 1947, no. 200, p. 216
Remus Niculescu, 'Georges de Bellio, l'Ami des Impressionistes', Revue roumaine d'Histoire de l'art, vol. I, Paris, 1970, no. 2, illustrated p. 266
Denis Rouart & Sandra Orienti, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Edouard Manet, Paris, 1970, no. 170
Denis Rouart & Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Paris, 1975, no. 191, illustrated p. 167

Work is in very good condition. Panel is stable. Under UV light: There is a small stroke of in painting near the center of top edge, otherwise fine.
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