Boy with a Sword Turned to the Left III
Edouard Manet
(French, 1832–1883)
1862
Medium/TechniqueEtching and aquatint
DimensionsSheet: 31.8 x 22.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 in.)
Credit LineKatherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession number2012.472
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed by Marcel Guérin in the lower margin "Superbe épreuve d'essai pareille à celle de Bracquemond, / mentionnée dans mon catalogue (collection Le Garrec) / sur le même papier Japon pelure. Plis d'impression" (Superb trial proof, similar to that of Bracquemond, mentioned in my catalogue (Collection Le Garrec) on the same japon paper. Printing folds)ProvenanceMarcel Guérin (b.1873 – d.1948), Paris. Henri M. Petiet (b.1894 – d.1980), Paris; December 16, 1997, Petiet Auction, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 117, to Arsène Bonafous-Murat (b.1935 - d.2011), Paris, on behalf of Daniel Bell (b.1919 – d.2011), Cambridge, MA; 2011, by descent to his son David Bell and his daughter Jordy Bell, New York; 2012, sold by Childs Gallery, Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 26, 2012)
