Edouard Manet
The Street Singer
1862171.1 x 105.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: ed. Manet
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Literature
Michael Fried, Manet's Modernism, or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s, Chicago, 1996, plate 7
Provenance
1872, sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris
1872, sold by Durand-Ruel to Ernest Hoschedé (born 1837 - died 1891), Paris
5-6 June 1878, Hoschedé sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, nr. 42, to Jean-Baptiste Faure (born 1830 - died 1914), Paris
about 1895, sold by Faure to Durand-Ruel, Paris
about 1899, sold by Durand-Ruel to Sarah Choate Sears (born 1858 - died 1935), Boston
1935, by descent to her daughter, Helen Sears (Mrs. J. D. Cameron) Bradley (born 1889 - died 1966), Boston
1966, bequest of Sarah Choate Sears to the MFA, accession date 19 May 1966
Other works by Edouard Manet
The Lady with the Fans, Nina de Callias
1873
1873
Interior at Arcachon
1871
1871
Portrait of a Young Woman (Victorine Meurent?)
c. 1868
c. 1868
In the Conservatory
1879
1879
Plum Brandy
c. 1877
c. 1877