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Music Lesson

(French, 1832–1883)
1870
Country of Origin, for CustomsFrance
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions141 x 173.1 cm (55 1/2 x 68 1/8 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Centennial gift in memory of Charles Deering
Accession number69.1123
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower left: Manet
ProvenanceFebruary 4-5, 1884, Manet estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 3, sold for 4400 francs to Durand-Ruel, Paris. Henri Rouart (b. 1833 - d. 1912), Paris; December 9-11, 1912, Rouart estate sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, lot 235, sold for 120,000 fr. to M. Knoedler and Co., Paris and New York (stock no. 13049); November, 1916, sold by Knoedler to Charles Deering (b. 1852 - d. 1927), Chicago [see note 1]; about 1924, by descent to an anonymous donor; 1969, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 23, 1969)

NOTES:
[1] Getty Provenance Index, M. Knoedler and Co. Records, PI record no. K-22964 (stock book 6, no. 13049, p. 49).
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