About the Artwork
On the Beach
ca. 1868
Édouard Manet
1832-1883
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 15 3/4 × 19 inches (40 × 48.3 cm) Framed: 23 3/8 × 26 1/2 × 3 3/8 inches (59.4 × 67.3 × 8.6 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.173
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Markings
Signed lower right: Manet
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Provenance
Paris, Collection of the artist (Manet Estate Inventory, no. 59)
Lochard (unnumbered photograph)
Guérard
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, (dealer), bt. August Pellerin, 20 September, 1904
Paris, Collection Auguste Pellerin
Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, (dealer), 1905
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, (dealer), 1905
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, (dealer), 1906
Vienna, Miethke, (dealer), 1910
Berlin, Collection Hugo Perls, by at least 1927
(?) Between A. Pellerin in 1904 and Mauthner-Markhof by 1928, it may have been with a "M. Salzburg"
Vienna, Collection Mlle Magda von Mauthner-Markhof, by at least 1928
Paris, E. Bignou, (dealer)
Paris, Paul Guillaume, (dealer), by at least 1931
New York, Wildenstein, (dealer), 1933-1935, from whom purchased by Robert H. Tannahill in October,1935
Grosse Pointe Farms Collection Robert H. Tannahill, by whom bequeathed to The Detroit Institute of Arts in 1970.
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Duret, T. Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son Oeuvre. Paris, 1902, p. 233, no. 162.
Manet-Monet. Exh. cat., Gallery Miethke. Vienna, 1910, no. 11.
Duret, T. Edouard Manet, Sein Leben Und Seine Kunst. Paris, 1910, p. 181.
Meier-Graefe, J. Edouard Manet. Munich, 1912, p. 234, pl. 135.
Duret, T. Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son Oeuvre. Paris, 1919, p. 233, no. 162.
Hourticq, L. Edouard Manet. Paris, 1921, pl. 29.
Waldmann, E. Edouard Manet. Berlin, 1923, p. 61.
Moreau-Nélaton, E. Manet; raconté par lui-meme. Paris, 1926, vol. 2, pl. 168. (Jamot and Wildenstein, 1932, state ptg. was number 160).
Duret, T. Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son Oeuvre. Paris, 1926, no. 162.
Kunstler, Ch. "Les Peintres de la Plage." L'Art Vivant, no. 65 (1 Sept. 1927): 673-677, esp. p 677, repr. p. 674, repr.
Kunst und Kunstler 25 (March 1927): 233.
A Century of French Painting. Exh. cat., Gallery McClellan. Glasgow, 1927, no. 19.
Cent ans de Peinture Française. Exh. cat., Gallery E. J. Van Wisselingh. Amsterdam, 1928, no. 39, repr.
La Peinture Française aux XIXme et XXme Siècles. Exh. cat., Gallery E. J. Van Wisselingh. Amsterdam, 1931, no. 31, repr.
Tabarant, A. Manet Histoire catalographique. Paris, 1931, pp. 241-242, cat. 191.
The Landscape in French Painting, XIX-XX Centuries. Exh. cat., Knoedler Galleries. New York, 1931, no. 14.
Jamot, P. and G. Wildenstein. Manet, vol. 1. Paris, 1932, p. 145, no. 220.
Jamot, P. and G. Wildenstein. Manet, vol. 2. Paris, 1932, pl. 317.
Five Centuries of European Painting. Exh. cat., Los Angeles Museum. Los Angeles, 1933, cat. 42 (lent by Wildenstein & Co.).
An Exhibition of French Nineteenth Century Masterpieces. Exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati, 1933, no. 5.
Century of Progress Exhibition. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1934, p. 42, cat. 254 (lent by Wildenstein & Co.).
Art News 32, no. 34 (May 26, 1934): 14, repr.
Modern French Paintings. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, 1934, p. 7, cat.15.
From David to Cézanne, Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. Springfield, 1935, cat. 24, repr. (lent by Wildenstein & Co.).
Duret, T. Manet. New York, 1937, p. 84, no. 30 (as Art Institute of Chicago, Coburn Collection).
Wildenstein and Co. Edouard Manet 1832-1883. New York, 1937, pp. 32-33, 65, no. 19, repr. (lent by Mr. Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit).
The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 27, 45 (ill.).
Rouart, D. & Wildenstein, D. Edouard Manet, vol. 1. 1975, p. 166, no. 189, repr.
Reff, T. Manet and Modern Paris. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC, 1982, pp. 164-165, repr.
Edouard Manet. Exh. cat., Isetan Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1986, cat. 11, pp. 122-123 (in Japanese), p. 154 (in English), repr.
Herbert, R. L. Impressionism - Art, Leisure and Parisian Society. New Haven, 1988, p. 276, fig. 281.
Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 89, 219, no. 57, repr.
Dippel, A. Von Paris an den Armelkanal: Der Städter am Strand bei Manet, Monet, Morisot, Degas und Renoir. Ph.D. dissertation, Universität zu Köln, 1996, pp. 82-84, pl. 78.
Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., the Phillips Collection. Washington, DC, 2000, pp. 87, 141, repr.
Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art. Exh. cat., Yokohama Sogo Museum of Art. Yokohama, 2001, pp. 32, 48, no. 2, color repr. p. 49 (in Japanese, entry by A. Marcereau on file).
Manet and the Sea. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 2003, pp. 70, 123, pl. 34 (as painted at Boulogne in 1868).
Impressionists by the Sea. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts. London, 2007, no. 41, pp. 86, 133.
Un été au bord de l'eau: Loisirs et impressionnisme. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts. Caen, 2013, p. 54, no. 8 (color ill.).
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