Elizabeth Harvey-Lee

EDOUARD MANET (1832-1918)
Les Chats (1868 to 1869 France)

Artists/Makers/Factories

EDOUARD MANET (1832-1918)

Medium

Original etching

Framed Width 221.00cm [87.01 inches wide]
Framed Height 178.00cm [70.08 inches high]

Provenance

Ex collection: Henriet Petiet

Condition

Very good.

Description / Expertise

Original etching, 1868-69.
(Reference Juliet Wilson 58, only state)
A fine impression in brown-black ink on blue-tinted antique laid paper watermarked with a bunch of grapes. One of 30 impressions published by Dumont in 1894. (The second edition. The first issue, also about 30 impressions, was in 1890. There was no lifetime edition.)
An etching done for Manet's own pleasure and that of his friends, such as Champfleury, author of the 1868 illustrated book on cats, "Les Chats".