Sketches of Snails, Flowering Plant

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1864/68

Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Édouard Manet
Title: Sketches of Snails, Flowering Plant
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1864–1868
Medium: Watercolor over graphite pencil on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 19.8 × 12.6 cm (7 13/16 × 5 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1923.1057
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Regina Shoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (Oxford University Press, 1950), pp. 174–75, pl. 99.
Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet (University of California Press, 1969), pp. 39, 81, 134, no. 551, fig. 404.
Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1975), pp. 228–29, no. 653 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 69, no. 4A10.
“Manet, Cat. 4, Sketches of Snail, Flowering Plant,” in Manet Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), https://publications.artic.edu/manet/reader/manetart/section/140020.

Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture,” June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, p. 94, cat. 919.
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, “French Drawings and Prints of the Nineteenth Century,” Mar. 21–Apr. 28, 1934, p. 11, cat. 52.
Palm Beach, Fl., Society of the Four Arts, “Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” Jan. 5–27, 1974, cat. 31.

Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923, with funds provided by Robert Allerton (1873–1964), Chicago.

Cat. 4 Sketches of Snails, Flowering Plant, 1864/68

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