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George Moore in the Artist's Garden
Édouard Manetc. 1879
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: George Moore in the Artist's Garden
- Creator: Edouard Manet
- Date Created: c. 1879
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 54.6 x 45.1 cm (21 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.) framed: 78.11 × 68.26 × 10.8 cm (30 3/4 × 26 7/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: The artist; (his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4-5 February 1884, no. 59); (Portier, Paris). (Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris and New York), c. 1900. (Paul Cassirer, Berlin). Max Liebermann [1847-1935], Berlin, by 1904;[1] by inheritance to his daughter, Mrs. Kurt Riezler [née Käthe Liebermann, 1885-1952], Berlin and later New York, until at least 1949.[2] (Wildenstein and Co., New York). Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia, by 1966;[3] bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2006. [1] The early provenance is according to Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, _Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné_, 2 vols., Lausanne and Paris, 1975: I:no. 297, repro. The painting was number 488 in the inventory taken of the artist's possessions after his death in 1883. Published as in Liebermann's collection in Ferdinand Laban, "Im Zwanzigsten Jahre nach Manets Tode." _Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst_ (1904): repro. 35. [2] This painting was among 14 from Liebermann's collection that were sent to the Kunsthaus Zürich in May 1933 and later released to his daughter Käthe Riezler. (See Walther Feilchenfeldt’s letter to Dr. Wartmann of 2 May 1933 published in _Max Liebermann und die französischen Impressionisten_, Düsseldorf, 1997: 239; "In the list of pictures that Max Liebermann is leaving in Zurich for safe keeping is “6. [Manet,] George Moore.”) The Riezlers left Europe for New York in 1938. The painting was lent by them to a 1948 exhibition at Wildenstein, New York, and again to an exhibition of their collection in San Francisco in 1949. See Karl-Heinz Janda and Annegret Janda, "Max Liebermann als Kunstsammler" in _Forschungen und Berichte_ 15 (1973): 103-149. [3] Included in a 1966 exhibition of of the Mellon collection at the NGA.
- Medium: oil on canvas
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