Pamono Edouard Manet, Wandering Musician, Lithograph> Impressionist

A lithograph after Edouard Manet from “Die Skizzenmappe – Zeichnungen französischer 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
“Wandernder Musikant” (Wandering Musician)
Colour Photo-lithograph
Year (conceived): 1861/2
Year (printed): 1918
Edition: 57/100
Size (overall): 480 x 322 mm
Size of the image: 215 x 284 mm
in the original passepartout, blind-numbered 5

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., München, 1918

Excellent condition (few signs of age in the passepartout)

Sold with Certificate
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Le vieux musician is clearly influenced by such Velazquez compositions as The Drinkers, both in subject and style. The identities of Manet’s models are known and include the leader of a band of gypsies, an old rag picker, street urchins, the old wandering bard and the orphan girl, all common sights in the streets of Paris in the early 1860s. The setting of Le vieux musician could either be an area in Paris called “Petit Pologne” or some vacant lots behind the Parc Monceau, near where Manet lived.

Literature:

Paul Jamot & Georges Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, vol. I, Paris, 1932, under no. 44, p. 120
Robert Rey, Manet, London & Toronto, 1938, illustrated p. 123 (titled Le musicien ambulant)
Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres, Paris, 1947, no. 555, illustrated p. 620
Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1969, no. 165, illustrated fig. 171
Denis Rouart & Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, pastels, aquarelles et dessins, vol. II, Paris, 1975, no. 308, illustrated p. 121
Theodore Reff, Manet and Modern Paris, Washington, D.C., 1982, pp. 124-25 & 190-91

The original drawing has been sold at Sotheby’s NY on May 3rd, 2012, for 410,500 USD – illustrated in the catalogue