Édouard Manet and Henri Charles Guérard
Jeanne: Spring
1881
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching and bitten tone, Sheet: 295 × 402 mm. (11 5/8 × 15 13/16 in.)
Plate: 249 × 360 mm. (9 13/16 × 14 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
1996.48.5168
Based on Manet's painting, Jeanne, 1881 (Location unknown; Rouart and Wildenstein 372). Printed in brown ink. Although Manet requested that Guérard cancel the plate, Guérard added aquatint and printed the plate. Possibly from the 1894 Dumont edition; according to Harris, "Dumont published an edition of 30 impressions of...30 plates, printed in bistre ink on blue-green laid papers."
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 Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Nov. 3 - 24, 1968.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Prints of Edouard Manet: A Centenary Celebration," September 27-November 20, 1983.
Jay McKean Fisher, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., "The Prints of Edouard Manet," 1985-1986; circulated to The Detroit Institute of Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; The St. Louis Art Museum; Huntsville Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The George A. Lucas Collection: Maryland's Treasure," circulated to Strathmore Hall, North Bethesda, September 4-November 1, 1997; Academy of the Arts, Easton, January 31-March 7, 1998; and Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, July 26-September 27, 1998.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Prints of Edouard Manet: A Centenary Celebration," September 27-November 20, 1983.
Jay McKean Fisher, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., "The Prints of Edouard Manet," 1985-1986; circulated to The Detroit Institute of Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; The St. Louis Art Museum; Huntsville Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The George A. Lucas Collection: Maryland's Treasure," circulated to Strathmore Hall, North Bethesda, September 4-November 1, 1997; Academy of the Arts, Easton, January 31-March 7, 1998; and Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, July 26-September 27, 1998.
Inscribed: Signed in plate: lower left "Manet" Inscribed in pencil: verso, in Lucas' hand "Epreuve Moderne (Dumont)"
Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)
