Details
| Artist | Édouard Manet, French, 1832-1883 |
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| Date | 1863 |
| Medium | etching and aquatint printed in black ink on laid paper |
| Dimensions | Plate: 10 1/2 × 7 1/4 inches (26.7 × 18.4 cm) Sheet: 17 1/4 × 12 3/4 inches (43.8 × 32.4 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Gordon Beer |
| Accession Number | 31.331 |
| Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
| Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Signed | Signed, in plate, lower left of image: éd. Manet |
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| Marks | Watermark: VAN GELDER ZONEN |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed, in plate below image, lower center, a quatrain by Charles Baudelaire: Entre tant de beautés que partout on peut voir | Je comprends bien, amis, que le Désir balance; | Mais on voit scintiller dans Lola de Valence | Le charme inattendu d'un bijou rose et noir. | (Ch. Baudelaire [translated from French: Among such beauties elsewhere that you see | I understand, friends, that Desire hesitates | But in Lola de Valance there scintillates | The unexpected charm of a jewel, rose and ebony.] |
Provenance
Gordon Beer;
1931-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1931-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Fisher, Jay McKean. The Prints of Édouard Manet. Exh. cat., International Exhibitions Foundation. Washington, D.C., 1985, no. 25.
