Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

Chanteuse de café-concert

Details

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Chanteuse de café-concert
black conté crayon, brush and gray wash on paper
5 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. (13.7 x 8.6 cm.)
Drawn circa 1876

Provenance

Ernest Rouart, Paris.

Literature

R. Rey, Choix de soixante-quatre dessins d'Edouard Manet, Paris, 1932, p. 47 (illustrated).
A. Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres, Paris, 1947, p. 298.
A. de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969, pp. 4, 34 and 130, no. 498 (illustrated, fig. 377).
D. Rouart and D. Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1975, vol. II, p. 178, no. 504 (illustrated, p. 179).

Lot Essay

Parisian cafés, concert halls and theaters provided Manet with plentiful subjects for his oeuvre. In Chanteuse de café-concert the singer is viewed from the perspective of the audience. Manet repeated this motif in his painting of the same title (1878; Wildenstein, no. 281).

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