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The Dead Toreador
The Dead Toreador

The Dead Toreador

Edouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
1867–1868
Medium/TechniqueEtching and aquatint
DimensionsSight: 17 x 26.9 cm (6 11/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Platemark: 15.6 x 22.4 cm (6 1/8 x 8 13/16 in.)
Image: 9.6 x 19.5 cm (3 3/4 x 7 11/16 in.)
Credit LineKatherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession number2016.587
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceApril 5, 1919, acquired by Sagot-Le Garrec (gallery), Paris [see note 1]; between about 1939 and 1945, ownership transferred from the gallery to Berthe Sagot Le Garrec (b. 1884 – d. 1970), Paris [see note 2]; 1970, by inheritance to her grandson, Jean-Claude Romand (b. 1927 – d. 2009), Paris; 2010, by descent to his heirs; consigned by the heirs of Jean-Claude Romand to Sagot-Le Garrec (gallery), Paris; 2016, sold by Sagot-Le Garrec to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)

NOTES:
[1] According to Sagot-Le Garrec, the gallery acquired the print on April 5, 1919. It is not known from whom, although the gallery’s founder, Edmond Sagot (b. 1857 – d. 1917) had already acquired Félix Bracquemond’s atelier from his estate. As Bracquemond assisted Manet in printing this etching, it is possible that the print came from the Bracquemond estate as well.

[2] The print was included in the exhibition “Dessins, Aquarelles, Eaux-Fortes et Lithographies de Édouard Manet,” Sagot-Le Garrec, April 7-19, 1930, cat. no. 30; and was published by Marcel Guérin, L’Oeuvre grave de Manet (Paris: Librairie Floury, 1944), cat. 33, as in the Le Garrec collection. During World War II, the ownership of certain items of stock were transferred from the gallery to the family.