Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Music Lesson

Edouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
1870

Medium/Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 141 x 173.1 cm (55 1/2 x 68 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Anonymous Centennial gift in memory of Charles Deering
Accession Number69.1123
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsLower left: Manet
ProvenanceFebruary 4-5, 1884, Manet estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 3, sold for 4400 francs to Durand-Ruel, Paris. Henri Rouart (b. 1833 - d. 1912), Paris; December 9-11, 1912, Rouart estate sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, lot 235, sold for 120,000 fr. to M. Knoedler and Co., Paris and New York (stock no. 13049); November, 1916, sold by Knoedler to Charles Deering (b. 1852 - d. 1927), Chicago [see note 1]; about 1924, by descent to an anonymous donor; 1969, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 23, 1969)

NOTES:
[1] Getty Provenance Index, M. Knoedler and Co. Records, PI record no. K-22964 (stock book 6, no. 13049, p. 49).