Flowers in a Crystal Vase

Édouard Manetc. 1882

Details

Title: Flowers in a Crystal Vase
Creator: Edouard Manet
Date Created: c. 1882
Physical Dimensions: overall: 32.7 x 24.5 cm (12 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.) framed: 52.7 x 44.8 x 8.3 cm (20 3/4 x 17 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
Provenance: Offered by the artist as a New Year's gift to "Mme X." [1] M and Mme Jules Féral, Paris, by 1932 until at least 1938.[2] Possibly (Galerie Charpentier, Paris) in 1951. [3] Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris, by 1952;[4] sold 15 August 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA. [1]According to Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, _Manet_, Paris, 1932, no. 508. [2]Lent by Féral to exhibitions in London in 1932 and Amsterdam in 1938. Eugène and Jules Féral [died c. 1949] acted as experts at sales at Hôtel Drout and elsewhere, the former betweeen c. 1876-1901 and the latter in the 1920s. [3] A 1949 sale of objects from Jules Féral's collection held at the Galerie Charpentier did not include the NGA picture. However the picture was included in an 1951 exhibition held at Charpentier, with no owner listed, and was probably sold to Charpentier by Mme Féral by that time. [4]Lent by Molyneux to the National Gallery of Art in 1952.
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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