The Boy and a Dog (Le Garçon et le chien)

Édouard Manet1861

Details

Title: The Boy and a Dog (Le Garçon et le chien)
Creator: Édouard Manet
Date Created: 1861
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “ed. M.”
Set or Series Title: Manet (Edmond Bazire)
Print State: Third of three states
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 thin laid paper from bound volume
Keywords: animals, children (people by age group), dogs
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: From page 120 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 17 ii; Moreau-Nelaton 10; Harris 11 iii; Fisher, “The Prints of Edouard Manet” cat. no. 5, p. 36; 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.D1.1.7

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