List of pastels by Édouard Manet

The list of pastels by Édouard Manet contains the entirety of the pictures drawn with pastel chalk by the French artist Édouard Manet . Although technically they are drawings, these pictures are occasionally counted among the paintings of Manet. The authors Rouart and Wildenstein list the pastels in their most recently published catalog raisonné in the second volume at the beginning of the drawings, while the first volume is reserved for the paintings. Earlier authors, on the other hand, did not separate the paintings and pastels, but instead put them together chronologically.

The chronological allocation of the individual works is problematic, as these are usually not signed and only little contemporary information is available. The oldest preserved pastel painting is certainly the depiction of Tête d'enfant from Manet's apprenticeship in the 1850s in the studio of the painter Thomas Couture . After that, he doesn't seem to have been interested in this medium for about two decades. Next, two pictures of his wife Suzanne Manet were probably taken . The works Madame Manet en buste and Portrait de Madame Manet sur un canapé bleu are in some cases dated to 1873 and 1874, respectively, while other authors see the time these pictures were taken a few years later. Various authors assume that Manet was inspired by his friend Edgar Degas in the 1870s to devote himself to pastel painting. Most of the pastels were created in the last years of Manet's life between 1878 and 1883. During this time he suffered from health restrictions, especially from painful paralysis in his left leg. Since he had problems standing for long periods of time, pastel drawing offered a welcome alternative to oil painting. Pastels with the comparatively faster way of working were easier to carry out for Manet than the technically more complex and sometimes large-format oil paintings.

The motifs are mostly portraits, most of which are friends of the artist. The male portraits are also people from the circle of friends. There are also some nudes, tavern or café scenes and motifs from the theater. Pastel painting also gave Manet the opportunity to try out certain things. There are some motifs that he executed first as pastel and then later in oil. An example of this is the stage performance Hamlet et fantôme, which was then followed by two oil paintings with the motif of the singer Faure as Hamlet . The repetition of a motif, such as the portraits of Mademoiselle Hecht, Madame Guillemet, Suzette Lemaire, Méry Laurent or Irma Brunner, testify to Manet's delight in varying the same theme.

list

Most of the information in the list is taken from the catalog raisonné by Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein from 1975. Accordingly, the titles are given in French. The additional specification of German titles was deliberately omitted, as these are often available in several variants. The number in the catalog raisonné of Rouart / Wildenstein Volume II (RW II) from 1975 is given under WV 1975 . In contrast to the catalog raisonné, the collection column shows the current owner as far as is known.

image	Title (french)	Year of origin	Format in cm	WV 1975	Collection, place
	Tete d'enfant	around 1856	37 × 30 cm	RW II 01	Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit
	Madame Manet en buste	1873	61 × 49 cm	RW II 02	Toledo Museum of Art Toledo (Ohio)
	Portrait of Madame Manet sur un canapé bleu	around 1874	49 × 60 cm	RW II 03	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	Hamlet	around 1877	46 × 56 cm	RW II 04	Burton Agnes Hall at Driffield
no picture available	Le skating	1877	unknown	RW II 05	lost
	L'homme au chapeau rond	1878	56 × 46 cm	RW II 06	Art Institute of Chicago Chicago
	Two females buvant de la bière	1878	55 × 46 cm	RW II 07	Burrell Collection Glasgow
	Tete de jeune femme	around 1878	61 × 50 cm	RW II 08	Private collection
	Portrait d'une jeune femme blonde aux yeux bleus	1878	61 × 50 cm	RW II 09	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	Espagnole	around 1879	56 × 46 cm	RW II 10	Kunsthaus Zurich
	Portrait de George Moore	1879	55 × 35 cm	RW II 11	Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
	M. Gauthier – Lathuille fils	1879	56 × 46 cm	RW II 12	Private collection
	Portrait de Madame Zola	1879	52 × 44 cm	RW II 13	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	Mademoiselle Valtesse de la Bigne	1879	56 × 36 cm	RW II 14	Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
	Isabelle Lemonier also Jeune fille à la rose	1879	55 × 46 cm	RW II 15	Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
	Eva Gonzalès	around 1879	42 × 34 cm	RW II 16	Private collection
	Dans la loge	1879	57 × 71 cm	RW II 17	Private collection
	Jeune fille en chapeau d'été	around 1879	56 × 35 cm	RW II 18	Private collection
	Sur le banc	around 1879	61 × 50 cm	RW II 19	Pola Museum of Art Hakone -Sengokuhara
	Femme assise au jardin also Le tricot	1879	56 × 46 cm	RW II 20	Private collection
	Jeune fille se coiffant	1878	56 × 46 cm	RW II 21	Private collection
	Femme à la jarretière	1879	53 × 44 cm	RW II 22	Ordrupgaard Museum Charlottenlund
	Femme au tub	1879	46 × 56 cm	RW II 23	Private collection
	Femme dans un tub	1879	55 × 45 cm	RW II 24	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	La toilette	1879	56 × 46 cm	RW II 25	EG Bührle Collection Foundation, Zurich
	Femme à la fourrure, de profile	around 1879	56 × 46 cm	RW II 26	Private collection
	Femme à la fourrure, de face	around 1879	56 × 46 cm	RW II 27	Private collection
	Portrait de Constantin Guys	1880	54 × 33 cm	RW II 28	Private collection
	Le compositeur Chabrier	1880	55 × 35 cm	RW II 29	Ordrupgaard Museum Charlottenlund
	Portrait du musicien Cabaner	1880	53 × 34 cm	RW II 30	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	L'homme blond	1880	54 × 34 cm	RW II 31	Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Art Museums Cambridge, Massachusetts
	Jeune homme à barbe blonde	1881	56 × 46 cm	RW II 32	Private collection
	Portrait de Madame Clemenceau	1880	55 × 35 cm	RW II 33	Private collection
	Portrait de Madame Du Paty	1880	54 × 34 cm	RW II 34	Private collection
	Portrait de la comtesse Albazzi	1880	56 × 46 cm	RW II 35	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
	Madame Jules Guillemet en chapeau	1880	55 × 35 cm	RW II 36	Saint Louis Art Museum St. Louis
	Parisienne also Madame Jules Guillemet nu-tête	1880	56 × 36 cm	RW II 37	Ordrupgaard Museum Charlottenlund
	Portrait de Marie Colombier	1880	53 × 34 cm	RW II 38	Burrell Collection Glasgow
	L'inconnue	1880	53 × 44 cm	RW II 39	Austrian Gallery Belvedere Vienna
	Mme Loubens sur son lit	1880	46 × 56 cm	RW II 40	Private collection
	Mme Loubens sur un canapé	1880	46 × 55 cm	RW II 41	Private collection
	Portrait de Mademoiselle Suzette Lemaire de profil	1881	53 × 45 cm	RW II 42	Private collection
	Portrait de Mademoiselle Suzette Lemaire en face	1881	53 × 33 cm	RW II 43	Private collection
	Jeunne fille au col cassé, de profile	1880	48 × 39 cm	RW II 44	Private collection
	Jeunne fille au col cassé, de face	1880	46 × 38 cm	RW II 45	Hermitage (Cancer Collection) Saint Petersburg
	Etude de femme à l'ombrelle	1880	48 × 69 cm	RW II 46	Private collection
	Femme en promenade tenant une ombrelle ouverte	1880	61 × 50 cm	RW II 47	Private collection
	Femme on board de la mer	1880	72 × 50 cm	RW II 48	Private collection
	Jeune femme au buste nu	1880	53 × 46 cm	RW II 49	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	Portrait du docteur materne	1881	565 × 35 cm	RW II 50	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	Méry Laurent accoudée	1881	61 × 50 cm	RW II 51	Private collection
	Portrait de Méry Laurent à la voilette	1881	56 × 35 cm	RW II 52	Private collection
	Méry Laurent de profil, nu-tête	1881	41 × 37 cm	RW II 53	Artizon Museum Tokyo
	Portrait de Léontine Massin	1881	56 × 46 cm	RW II 54	Private collection
	Madame Martin en chapeau noir garni de roses	1881	54 × 44 cm	RW II 55	Menard Art Museum Komaki
	Madame Jeanne Martin au chapeau capote	1881	56 × 46 cm	RW II 56	Private collection
	Femme au nœud bleu	1881	55 × 46 cm	RW II 57	Private collection
	Femme au chapeau garni de gaze	1881	61 × 50 cm	RW II 58	Ōhara Museum of Art Kurashiki
	Femme au chapeau à brides	1881	61 × 51 cm	RW II 59	Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore
	Femme lisant	1881	55 × 46 cm	RW II 60	Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
	Tete de jeune fille	1881	53 × 44 cm	RW II 61	Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal Montreal
	Fillette au chapeau de paille	1880	56 × 46 cm	RW II 62	Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, Massachusetts
	Le repos	1881	32 × 50 cm	RW II 63	Private collection
	Un café place du Théâtre Français	1881	32 × 45 cm	RW II 64	Burrell Collection Glasgow
	Le modèle du Bar aux Folies-Bergère (Suzon)	1881	54 × 34 cm	RW II 65	Musée des Beaux-Arts Dijon
	Le peintre animalier La Rochenoire	1882	55 × 34 cm	RW II 66	J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles
	L'homme au chien	1882	56 × 35 cm	RW II 67	Art Institute of Chicago Chicago
	Portrait de René Maizeroy	around 1882	55 × 34 cm	RW II 68	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston
	Portrait de Mademoiselle Claire Campbell	1882	54 × 44 cm	RW II 69	Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland
	Portrait de Madame Michel Lévy	1882	65 × 54 cm	RW II 70	Private collection
	Portrait de Madame Michel Lévy	1882	75 × 52 cm	RW II 71	National Gallery of Art Washington, DC
	Méry Laurent in stock at a col de fourrure	1882	54 × 34 cm	RW II 72	Private collection
	Méry Laurent au chapeau noir	1882	54 × 44 cm	RW II 73	Musée des Beaux – Arts Dijon
	Méry Laurent à la toque	1882	54 × 34 cm	RW II 74	Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown (Massachusetts)
	Jeune femme en chapeau à bords discount	1882	55 × 46 cm	RW II 75	Private collection
	Méry Laurent au carlin	1882	56 × 46 cm	RW II 76	Pushkin Museum (Hatvany Collection) Moscow
	Tete de femme	around 1882	40 × 30 cm	RW II 77	Private collection
	La viennoise, Irma Brunner	1880	54 × 46 cm	RW II 78	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	La viennoise, Irma Brunner	1882	57 × 36 cm	RW II 79	Private collection
	Mademoiselle Hecht, de face	1882	56 × 35 cm	RW II 80	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	Mademoiselle Hecht, de profile	1882	49 × 39 cm	RW II 81	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	Mademoiselle Hecht, de profile, en chapeau	1882	54 × 44 cm	RW II 82	Musée d'Orsay Paris
	Jeune femme au chapeau blanc	1882	56 × 46 cm	RW II 83	Private collection
	Jeunne fille au chapeau marron also known as L'ouvrière or La parisienne	1879-1880	56 × 35.5 cm	RW II 84	Museo Soumaya Mexico City
	Femme au chapeau à plume grise	1882	54 × 34 cm	RW II 85	Hiroshima Museum of Art Hiroshima
	Jeunne femme décolletée	1882	56 × 46 cm	RW II 86	Private collection
	Portrait de femme	1882	54 × 45 cm	RW II 87	Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck (Rau Collection for UNICEF) Remagen
	Jeune fille en déshabillé	1882	56 × 35 cm	RW II 88	Private collection
	Élisa	1883	25 × 20 cm	RW II 89	Burrell Collection Glasgow

literature

• Geneviève Monnier: Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins - Musée d'Orsay: pastels du XIXe siècle . Ed. de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-7118-2010-6 .
• John Rewald : Edouard Manet: Pastels . Cassirer, Oxford 1947.
• Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein : Edouard Manet: Catalog raisonné . Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris and Lausanne 1975.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The size 49 × 60 cm is given by the online database of the French national museums ( http://www.culture.gouv.fr/ ). Rouart / Wildenstein call it 50 × 61 cm.
2. ↑ Rouart / Wildenstein cite 1878 as the year of origin, the Art Institute of Chicago mentions 1878–1879 ( https://www.artic.edu/artworks/90258/portrait-of-alphonse-maureau ).
3. ↑ The title of the picture in Rouart / Wildenstein is Portrait d'une jeune femme blonde aux yeux bleus , the Musée d'Orsay describes the picture as Jeune femme blonde aux yeux bleus ( http://www.musee-orsay.fr/ ).
4. ↑ Rouart / Wildenstein cite 1878 as the year, the Musée d'Orsay states around 1877 ( http://www.musee-orsay.fr/ ).
5. ↑ The sizes given by Rouart / Wildenstein are 61 × 50 cm, the Musée d'Orsay specifies 60 × 50 cm ( http://www.musee-orsay.fr/ ).
6. ↑ The Musée d'Orsay gives a different image size of 55.7 x 46 cm.
7. ↑ The Musée d'Orsay gives a different size as 53.7 × 35 cm.