Outlet Pamono Edouard Manet, Portrait of Mrs. De Nittis in the Garden, Lithograph

A lithograph after Edouard Manet from “Die Skizzenmappe – Zeichnungen französische Meister des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts” portfolio with text by Julius Elias, published by Marees-Gesellschaft in Munich in 1911-1918, one year before the Van Gogh portfolio, in an edition of 100 only. The portfolio consisted of 70 lithographic reproductions of drawings and watercolors by Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Armand Guillaumin, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, George Seurat, Paul Signac, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Auguste Rodin.
As stated in the colophon, it took the publisher 7 years to complete the series.
The artwork is accompanied by a copy of the colophon.

Edouard Manet (1832-1883), after
“Portrait of Mrs. De Nittis”
a.k.a. In the Garden
Color photo-lithograph
Year (conceived): 1870 approx.
Year (printed): 1918
Edition: 57/100
Size (overall): 480 x 322 mm
Size of the image: 186 x 224 mm
in the original passepartout, blind-numbered 7

Blind seal of the publisher, lower right corner

Numbered 57 on the colophon, from an overall edition of 100

Printer: André Marty
Publisher: Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich, 1918

Excellent condition (few signs of age in the passepartout)

Sold with certificate
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A preparatory study for the painting “Au Jardin” (In the Garden, 1870), exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from September 24, 2023 to January 7, 2024, now back to the original location, the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont.
It’s interesting to notice that in our version the man on the right (likely the painter De Nittis) is missing, and it should precede the final painting.

One of Edouard Manet’s very first plein-air paintings, this intimate scene demonstrates Manet’s prowess at rendering effects of light, shade, and color. Sunlight dapples the path and garden wall beyond and illuminates the infant’s blanket and the delicate sleeves and bodice of the woman’s dress, drawing us into this tender moment en famille in a Parisian garden. The sitters may be Edma and Tiburce Morisot, siblings of the painter Berthe Morisot, and Edma’s newborn daughter. It has also been suggested that the painting depicts the family of Italian artist Giuseppe de Nittis, Manet’s friend and the first owner of the work.