Edouard Manet
Oysters
186239.1 x 46.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: Ed. Manet
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of the Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc.
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 654
Literature
Richard R. Brettell and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-century art in the Norton Simon Museum, New Haven, 2006, fig. 67d
Michael Marrinan, Gustave Caillebotte, Los Angeles, California, 2016, fig. 136
Provenance
Gift from the artist to Suzanne Leenhoff Manet
Manet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 February 1884, nr. 90
Paul Michel Michel-Lévy, Paris
Michel-Lévy sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 October 1889, nr. 13
Paul Gallimard (1850-1929), Paris, by 1908
sold 1920 to Charles Montag, Switzerland
sold to Emile Staub-Terlinden, Männendorf, Switzerland, by 1923
Staub-Terlinden collection
sold 1943 through Wildenstein, London and New York
Dr. David M. (1892-1977) and Adele Rosenwald Levy (1892-1960)], New York, by 1946
gift 1962 to NGA
Other works by Edouard Manet
Flowers in a crystal vase
c. 1882
c. 1882
Claude Monet in His Studio Boat
1874
1874
The Old Musician
1862
1862
The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet)
1865-66
1865-66
Mme Manet in the Conservatory
1876-79
1876-79