Édouard Manet
Exotic Flower (Women with a Mantilla)
1867-1868
Physical Qualities
Etching and aquatint, Sheet: 308 x 236 mm. (12 1/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
Plate: 175 x 117 mm. (6 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
Image: 161 x 107 mm. (6 5/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.5138
Accompanies poem "Fleux exotique" by Armand Renaud from the book "Philippe Burty, ed., Sonnets et eaux-fortes (Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1869)." Printed in brown ink. There is some offsetting on the verso from printed text (from what would be the adjacent text page in Sonnets et eaux-fortes).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, "Manet and Spain," Jan. 19 - Mar. 2, 1969.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Manet and His Contemporaries," Oct. 10 - Dec. 12, 1971.
BMA, "The Prints of Edouard Manet: A Centenary Celebration," 27 September - 20 November, 1983.
Jay McKean Fisher, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., "The Prints of Edouard Manet," May 1985 - June 1986, cat. no. 11, p. 43-44, ill. p. 43; circulated to The Detroit Institute of Art, May 14 - June 30, 1985; University Art Museum, Berkeley, Sept. 18 - Nov. 3; The St. Louis Art Museum, Nov. 23, 1985 - Jan. 5, 1986; Huntsville Museum of Art; Worcester Art Museum, Jan. 25 - Mar. 9, 1986; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Mar. 29 - May 11, 1986.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Manet and His Contemporaries," Oct. 10 - Dec. 12, 1971.
BMA, "The Prints of Edouard Manet: A Centenary Celebration," 27 September - 20 November, 1983.
Jay McKean Fisher, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., "The Prints of Edouard Manet," May 1985 - June 1986, cat. no. 11, p. 43-44, ill. p. 43; circulated to The Detroit Institute of Art, May 14 - June 30, 1985; University Art Museum, Berkeley, Sept. 18 - Nov. 3; The St. Louis Art Museum, Nov. 23, 1985 - Jan. 5, 1986; Huntsville Museum of Art; Worcester Art Museum, Jan. 25 - Mar. 9, 1986; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Mar. 29 - May 11, 1986.
Fisher, Jay McKean. The Prints of Edouard Manet (Washington, D.C.: The International Exhibitions Foundation, 1985), p. 83 illustrated.
Inscribed: Signed in plate: lower left "Manet"
Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c) Watermark: partial scroll (Double Volute?)
