Édouard Manet
Lady with a Bonnet
1880
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Édouard Manet
Lady with a Bonnet
1880
Physical Qualities
Pastel on prepared canvas, Sheet: 600 x 489 mm. (23 5/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.217
Edouard Manet took up pastels toward the end of his life. Given his declining health, the medium appealed to him as it required little preparation; odorless pastels could be spontaneously applied and took no time to dry. Manet used the medium primarily to create bust-length portraits of women set against plain backgrounds. Here his almost cosmetic-like application of stumped (or smudged) pastel strokes in the sitter’s face creates her fair and creamy complexion, set against her dark hair and bonnet.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1950; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase, December 3, 1930; Jamot/Wildenstein, 1921, no. 472; Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne-Berlin; Alfred Cassirer, Berlin; Durand-Ruel, Paris; Auguste Pellerin (1852-1929), Paris; Mr. Robin; Manet Sale Feb. 4-5, 1884 no. 100.
BMA, Cone Wing rotation, 5 February - 24 June 2007.
Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections', Oct. 10, 1999-Jan. 30, 2000, p. 120, no. 41, ill. p. 121.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection', June 7-July 27, 1995.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection', May 14-Aug. 11, 1991.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt', April 18-June 3, 1962, p. 52, no. 12, ill. p. 35.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'From Ingres to Gauguin', Nov.-Dec. 1951, p. 33, no. 95, ill. p. 31.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Selections from the Cone Collection', Fall 1949, p. 13.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Exhibition of Baltimore Owned Art Treasures', Jan. 17-March 27, 1933, p. 13, no. 19, ill. frontispiece.
Thannhauser Galleries, Munich, 'The Manet Paintings from the Pellerin Collection', 1910, no. 34.
Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections', Oct. 10, 1999-Jan. 30, 2000, p. 120, no. 41, ill. p. 121.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection', June 7-July 27, 1995.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection', May 14-Aug. 11, 1991.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt', April 18-June 3, 1962, p. 52, no. 12, ill. p. 35.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'From Ingres to Gauguin', Nov.-Dec. 1951, p. 33, no. 95, ill. p. 31.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Selections from the Cone Collection', Fall 1949, p. 13.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Exhibition of Baltimore Owned Art Treasures', Jan. 17-March 27, 1933, p. 13, no. 19, ill. frontispiece.
Thannhauser Galleries, Munich, 'The Manet Paintings from the Pellerin Collection', 1910, no. 34.
Sona Johnston. Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. [Baltimore, MD]: Baltimore Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International, 1999, page 121.
Brenda Richardson, Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1985, p. 183.
Ira Moskowitz, ed., Great Drawings of All Time, Vol. III: French Thirteenth Century to 1919, New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1962, no. 796
Baltimore Museum of Art. Paintings, Drawings and Graphic Works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt: April 18 – June 3, 1962. [Baltimore, MD]: Baltimore Museum of Art, [1962], cat. no. 12, page 35, (published as ‘Woman with Bonnet’).
Baltimore Museum of Art, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, rev'd edition 1967; originally published in 1955, no. 29, p. 17, 66, ill. p. 33.
Etta Cone, The Cone Collection of Baltimore-Maryland: Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Baltimore 1934, n.p.
Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet, Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, Edition d'études et de documents, 1932, vol. I: no. 472, p. 177; vol. II: figure 213, p. 116 [as Femme au chapeau à brides].
Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Histoire catalographique, Paris, 1931, 'Catalogue of the pastels' no. 51, p. 486 [as Profil de femme].
Théodore Duret, Manet and the French Impressionists, London 1910, 'Catalogue of the pastels', no. 53, p. 272; published in a German edition in Berlin 1910 as Edouard Manet, sein Leben und seine Kunst, p. 316.
Théodore Duret, Histoire de Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1902 [reprinted 1919, 1926], 'Catalogue of the pastels', no. 53, p. 294.
