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The Cat and the Flowers (Le chat et les fleurs)
Édouard Manet1869
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Cat and the Flowers (Le chat et les fleurs)
- Creator: Édouard Manet
- Date Created: 1869
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “Manet”
- Set or Series Title: Manet (Edmond Bazire)
- Print State: Fifth of six states? (third of three or fourth of five states, 2nd edition)
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1949
- Materials & Techniques: Etching and aquatint on wove paper from bound volume
- Keywords: animals, cats
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: From the second edition of Champfleury’s “Les Chats,” 1870. From page 147 of Edmond Bazire’s one-volume “Manet” (Paris: A. Quantin, 1884), which includes Emile Zola’s “Edouard Manet, étude biographique et critique” (1867) and Charles Cros’s “Le Fleuve”
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 175 mm x 130 mm (6.89 in. x 5.12 in.). Sheet dimensions: 225 mm x 138 mm (8.86 in. x 5.43 in.).
- Bibliography: Guérin 53 ii; Harris 65 v/vi? (2nd ed. of Champfleury) lists 3 states, dividing the third into 3 editions for a total of "5" distinctive printings (1+1+3). RHW 10/2/87; Moreau-Nelaton 19; for information on the portraits see Heinrich Schwarz, “Two Unknown Portraits of Manet,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 53 (April 1959)
- Associated People: Created by Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
- Accession Number: 1949.D1.1.9
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