Édouard Manet
The Spanish Singer
1860-1861
Physical Qualities
Etching and bitten tone, Sheet: 349 x 283 mm. (13 3/4 x 11 1/8 in.)
Plate: 299 x 243 mm. (11 3/4 x 9 9/16 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
1996.48.5116
Based on Manet's painting, The Spanish Singer, 1860 (Metropolitan Musem; Rouart and Wildenstein 32). Printed in brown ink. Fisher describes the technique for this impression as "etching, roulette, bitten tone," but roulette cannot be indentified by this cataloguer (NS).
Most likely from the 1894 Dumont edition; according to Harris, "Dumont published an edition of 30 impressions of...30 plates, printed in bistre ink on blue-green laid papers."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inscribed: Signed in plate: upper right "ed. Manet" Inscribed in penci: verso, in Lucas' hand "Epreuve Moderne - (Dumont) vieux papier"
Markings: None
