Édouard Manet
Lola De Valence
1860-1862
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Édouard Manet
Lola De Valence
1860-1862
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph with scraping, 352 × 271 mm. (13 7/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Levy, Baltimore; and with exchange funds from Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph de Vries Beckley
Object Number
1987.94
Manet's third lithograph was the cover for a serenade dedicated to Lola de Valence with words and music by Zacharie Astruc. The songsheet was published in March 1863, but the design was likely put to stone earlier in the year, when Manet finished his painting of the dancer. The print is the mirror image of the painting, with Lola de Valence cropped at the hip as a vignette. While the image is likely based on the same watercolor Manet used to transfer the composition to the copper plate for the etching, the lithographic portrait was itself drawn directly on the stone as it has been enlarged and adjusted to fit the oval format; Lola's fan, for instance, has been lifted so that it is visible in the frame, and the decorative band of her dress is positioned to deliberately serve as the lower boundary of the image. The popularity of this songsheet - in equal parts attributed to the popularity of Lola de Valence, of Manet's multiple depictions of her, and of Astruc's music itself - has led to the survival of very few copies.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase 1987; R.M. Light; Sotheby's; Eric Franck
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Art of Music from the Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, January 8, 2005 - February 26, 2005; The Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, 2005 - November 20, 2005; The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, December 9, 2005 - February 5, 2006; Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, February 15, 2006 - April 9, 2006
Jay McKean Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “Three Master Printmakers from the Nineteenth Century: Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt,” March 17-May 30, 1993
Jay McKean Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “Three Master Printmakers from the Nineteenth Century: Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt,” March 17-May 30, 1993
