René Maizeroy
Edouard Manet
(French, 1832–1883)
about 1882
Medium/TechniquePastel on canvas
Dimensions56.2 x 35 cm (22 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit LinePresented in memory of Robert Jordan by his wife
Accession number37.621
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Not on viewClassificationsPastels
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This pastel of Maizeroy is one of a number painted by Manet between the year of 1880 and his death in 1883 when he was forced by paralysis to take to a wheel chair. Manet not only used the pastel because it was more convenient, but also because it permitted him to experiment with his theories in the rendering of light and shade and to obtain a general effect of luminosity.
InscriptionsLower right: manetProvenance1902, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris [see note 1]. By 1905, Eben Dyer Jordan (b. 1857 - d. 1916), Boston [see note 2]; 1916, by descent to his son, Robert Jordan (d. 1932), Paris; 1932, by inheritance to his widow, Mrs. Robert Jordan, Paris; 1937, gift of Mrs. Robert Jordan to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 14, 1937)
NOTES:
[1] According to a letter from Charles Cunningham, Assistant Curator of Paintings, MFA, to Robert M. Levy, Jacques Seligmann and Co., Inc., New York (October 19, 1937) in the MFA curatorial file. Cunningham conjectures that the pastel may have passed from Bernheim-Jeune to Eben Dyer Jordan, though this cannot be substantiated.
[2] Mr. Dyer lent the pastel to the MFA in 1905 and 1910.
NOTES:
[1] According to a letter from Charles Cunningham, Assistant Curator of Paintings, MFA, to Robert M. Levy, Jacques Seligmann and Co., Inc., New York (October 19, 1937) in the MFA curatorial file. Cunningham conjectures that the pastel may have passed from Bernheim-Jeune to Eben Dyer Jordan, though this cannot be substantiated.
[2] Mr. Dyer lent the pastel to the MFA in 1905 and 1910.
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