Child with a Sword Turned to the Left (L’Enfant a l’Épée tournée à gauche)

Édouard Manet1861 (possibly 1862)

Details

Title: Child with a Sword Turned to the Left (L’Enfant a l’Épée tournée à gauche)
Creator: Édouard Manet
Date Created: 1861 (possibly 1862)
Signatures / Inscriptions: Top of “M” showing, lower left
Set or Series Title: Manet (Edmond Bazire)
Print State: Second state
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 on leaf from bound volume
Keywords: children (people by age group), print states, swords, weapons
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: From page 54 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”
Bibliography: Guérin 13 ii; Moreau-Nelaton 52; Harris 26 ii; Fisher 18; 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.D1.1.3

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