Edouard Manet
The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet)
1865-66187.2 x 108.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: Manet
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of Edith Stuyvesant Gerry
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 649
Literature
Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre, Manet/Velazquez, New York, New Haven, 2003, figs. 1.50, 9.56
Ann Dumas (ed.), Inspiring Impressionism, Denver-New Haven, 2007, fig. 53
Provenance
The artist
purchased January 1872 by Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris and New York
Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830-1914), Paris
re-acquired by Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris and New York, by December 1878
sold 1898 to George Washington Vanderbilt III (1862-1914), Biltmore, near Asheville, and Washington, D.C.
by inheritance to his wife, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt Gerry (1873-1958), Providence
bequest 1959 to NGA
Other works by Edouard Manet
Portrait of Mademoiselle Isabelle Lemonnier
c. 1879/80
c. 1879/80
On the Beach
1873
1873
The Ragpicker
c. 1865-70
c. 1865-70
Ball at the opera
1873
1873
Beggar with Oysters (Philosopher)
1865-67
1865-67