Edouard Manet

The Music Lesson



Edouard Manet - The Music Lesson



Edouard Manet
The Music Lesson
1870
141 x 173.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: Manet
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Anonymous Centennial gift in memory of Charles Deering


Literature


Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre, Manet/Velazquez, New York, New Haven, 2003, fig. 9.87


Provenance


4-5 February 1884, Manet estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, nr. 3, to Durand-Ruel, Paris
Henri Rouart (born 1833 - died 1912), Paris
9-11 December 1912, Rouart estate sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, nr. 235, to Knoedler and Co., Paris and New York
November 1916, sold by Knoedler to Charles Deering (born 1852 - died 1927), Chicago
about 1924, by descent to an anonymous donor
1969, anonymous gift to the MFA, accession date 23 September 1969

External links


Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 69.1123

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