Detail of Music Lesson by Manet in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, July 2011

Music Lesson

Edouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

1870

Medium/Technique: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 141 x 173.1 cm (55 1/2 x 68 1/8 in.)

Credit Line: Anonymous Centennial gift in memory of Charles Deering

Accession Number: 69.1123

Collections: Europe

Classifications: Paintings

Inscriptions: Lower left: Manet

Provenance: February 4-5, 1884, Manet estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 3, sold for 4400 francs to Durand-Ruel, Paris. Henri Rouart (b. 1833 - d. 1912), Paris; December 9-11, 1912, Rouart estate sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, lot 235, sold for 120,000 fr. to M. Knoedler and Co., Paris and New York (stock no. 13049); November, 1916, sold by Knoedler to Charles Deering (b. 1852 - d. 1927), Chicago [see note 1]; about 1924, by descent to an anonymous donor; 1969, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 23, 1969)

NOTES:
[1] Getty Provenance Index, M. Knoedler and Co. Records, PI record no. K-22964 (stock book 6, no. 13049, p. 49).


Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/34058/music-lesson