Edouard Manet

Boy with a Sword



Edouard Manet - Boy with a Sword



Edouard Manet
Boy with a Sword
1861
131.1 x 93.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower left: Manet
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Erwin Davis, 1889


Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 89

Literature
Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre, Manet/Velazquez, New York, New Haven, 2003, fig. 9.21



Provenance

the artist, Paris, 1861–1871 or 1872, deposited with Théodore Duret, Paris, September 1870–71, sold in or by January 1872 to Febvre
with Alexis-Joseph Febvre, Paris, 1872, sold on 6 or 8 January or 8 to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, from 1872, held as collateral by (Charles?) Edwards, Paris
Alfred Edwards (son of Charles Edwards), Paris, until 1881
sale, Hôtel Drouot, 24 February 1881, nr. 39, to Feder
Jules Feder, Paris, 1881, on deposit with Durand-Ruel, 25 February, sold on 28 June to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1881, sold on 28 June to J. Alden Weir for Davis
Erwin Davis, New York, 1881–89
his sale, Ortgies, New York, 19-20 March, nr. 141, bought in

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 89.21.2

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