Inscription
lower right: Manet
Provenance
Sold by the artist to M. Pertuiset, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 June 1888, no. 3); bought by Isidore Bloch or Hermann Paechter, Berlin. Max Liebermann [1847-1935], Berlin, before 1925; his daughter, Mrs. Kurt Riezler [née Käthe Liebermann, 1885-1952], Berlin and later New York.[1] (Wildenstein and Co., New York); sold 1959 to Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].
Exhibition History
- 1884
- Exposition Manet, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1884, no. 91.[1]
- 1925
- Exposition des Impressionnistes, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1925.
- 1928
- Ausstelllung Edouard Manet, Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, 1928, no. 94.
- 1932
- Exhibition of French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 464.
- 1954
- Vier eeuwen stilleven in Frankrijk, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 1954, no. 88.
- 1966
- French paintings from the collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 44, repro.
Exhibition History Notes
[1] The Melon was displayed immediately to the right of the NGA painting Plum Brandy (1971.85.1) in this exhibition.
Bibliography
- 1932
- Jamot, Paul, and Georges Wildenstein. Manet. 2 vols. Paris, 1932: 1:no. 386, fig. 440.
- 1954
- Bloch, Vitale. "Four Centuries of Still Life in France." The Burlington Magazine 96 (September 1954): 289, fig. 28.
- 1973
- Janda, Karl-Heinz, and Annegret Janda. "Max Liebermann als Kunstsammler." Forschungen und Berichte 15 (1973): 103-149.
- 1988
- Paul, Barbara. "Drei Sammlungen französischer impressionistischer Kunst im kaiserlichen Berlin - Bernstein, Liebermann, Arnhold." Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 42 (1988): 17, repro.
- 1997
- Natter, G. Tobias, and Julius H. Schoeps, intro. Max Liebermann und die französischen Impressionisten. Published in conjuction with an exhibition at the Jüdisches Museum, Vienna. Düsseldorf, 1997: 216, repro., 241.
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