Édouard Manet
Les Gitanos
1861
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 346 x 262 mm. (13 5/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
Plate: 316 x 239 mm. (12 7/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.5124
Based on Manet's painting, The Gypsies, 1860 (cut-up, with three fragments existing; Rouart and Wildenstein 42-44)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
The Maryland Institude of Art, Baltimore, Dec. 3 - Dec. 22, 1959.
Maryland Arts Council, Sept. 17, 1969 - June 19, 1970.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Manet and His Contemporaries," Oct. 10 - Dec. 12, 1971.
Eugene Leake, Maryland Institute College of Art, St. Timothy's School, Stevenson, MD, Oct. 23 - Nov. 9, 1972.
BMA, "The Prints of Edouard Manet: A Centenary Celebration," 27 September - 20 November, 1983.
Jay McKean Fisher, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., "The Prints of Edouard Manet," 1985-1986; circulated to The Detroit Institute of Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; The St. Louis Art Museum; Huntsville Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Jay McKean Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “Three Master Printmakers from the Nineteenth Century: Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt,” March 17-May 30, 1993
Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art," October 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006.
Maryland Arts Council, Sept. 17, 1969 - June 19, 1970.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Manet and His Contemporaries," Oct. 10 - Dec. 12, 1971.
Eugene Leake, Maryland Institute College of Art, St. Timothy's School, Stevenson, MD, Oct. 23 - Nov. 9, 1972.
BMA, "The Prints of Edouard Manet: A Centenary Celebration," 27 September - 20 November, 1983.
Jay McKean Fisher, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., "The Prints of Edouard Manet," 1985-1986; circulated to The Detroit Institute of Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; The St. Louis Art Museum; Huntsville Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Jay McKean Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “Three Master Printmakers from the Nineteenth Century: Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt,” March 17-May 30, 1993
Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art," October 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006.
Inscribed: Signed in plate: lower right "éd. Manet"
Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c) Watermark: (shield with crescent, unidentified)
