Édouard Manet
The Candle Seller
1861-1862
Physical Qualities
Etching and aquatint, Sheet: 478 × 300 mm. (18 13/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Plate: 341 × 230 mm. (13 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Image: 307 × 199 mm. (12 1/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Print Fund
Object Number
1992.240
ex collection H.M. Petiet. Included in second sale of Petiet Collection, Hotel Drouot, May 20, 1992, Lot # 134, p. 49. Did not sell, purchased after sale through Arsene Bonafous-Murat.
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
(cont'd from previous screen) **Ingelheim am Rhein, 1977, (catalogue by Juliet Wilson Bareau); Harris, Jean. 'Edouard Manet, The Graphic Work: A Catalogue Raisonne,' (Revised Edition) Alan Wofsy, San Francisco, 1990.
Inscribed: FACE: signed in plate, LR, 'ed. Manet'. VERSO: (collector's stamp), LR corner, 'H.M.P.' (Henri Petiet).
Markings: Partial crownw/shield/Hallines?
