Four Studies of a Woman

Artist Circle of Manet (French)

Formerly attributed to Edouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

Date19th century

MediumBlack and white chalk

DimensionsOverall: 8 3/4 × 11 3/4 inches (22.23 × 29.85 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number37-35

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings from the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, October 23-December 19, 1955.

University of Kansas, Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, January-February 1958.

Paintings, drawings and graphic works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, Baltimore Museum of Art, April 18-June 3, 1962.

Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, September 22-December 3, 1989.

Provenance

Valeri;

With Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company, Inc., New York, by November 11, 1937;

Purchased from Seligmann, Rey by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1937.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 122, (repro.), as by Manet, Four Sketches of Mme. Manet.

Gertrude Rosenthal, ed., Paintings, drawings and graphic works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, exh. cat. (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1962).

Roger B. Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 60, (repro.), as Four Studies of a Woman.

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