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Édouard Manet and J. Lefman

Open Here I Flung the Shutter (The Window)

1875

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Open Here I Flung the Shutter (The Window)

1875

Physical Qualities Brush and ink transfer lithograph, Sheet: 421 x 315 mm. (16 9/16 x 12 3/8 in.) Image: 395 x 315 mm. (15 9/16 x 12 3/8 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 1996.48.18047
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
Peter Wick, Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "The Arts of the French Book 1900 - 1965," Dec. 1966 - Jan. 1967; circulated to Lillian Bradshaw, Dallas
Public Library, Dallas, TX, Mar. 28 - May 6, 1967; circulated to Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, c. June 1967.

The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Nov. 3 - 24, 1968.

Eugene Leake, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, April 1969.

Eugene Leake, Maryland Institute College of Art, St. Timothy's School, Stevenson, MD, Oct. 23 - Nov. 9, 1972.

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.

BMA, Print Rotation, July 2003
Fisher, Jay McKean. The Prints of Edouard Manet (Washington, D.C.: The International Exhibitions Foundation, 1985), p. 111 illustrated.
Parshall, Peter and S. Hollis Clayson, Christiane Hertel, Nicholas Penny. The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900 (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), p.78 illustrated.

Inscribed: Signed in matrix: lower right "E. M."

Markings: None

Artist

Édouard Manet

French, 1832-1883

French, 1832-1883
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