The Barricade (La barricade), 1871

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 75

Medium

crayon lithograph with scraping on chine collé [proof]

Dimensions

sheet (chine collé): 46 × 33.2 cm (18 1/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
mount: 56.9 × 43.8 cm (22 3/8 × 17 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Harris 1970, no. 71

Accession Number

1946.21.133

Artists / Makers

Edouard Manet (artist) French, 1832 - 1883

Image Use

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Inscription

verso, lower left, in graphite, by later hand: 20741 / 74 [encircled]; verso, upper right, in graphite, by later hand: 2 in mat all around

Marks and Labels

verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d); verso, stamped in black ink: Robert Hartshorne stamp (Lugt 2215b)

Provenance

Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey, (Lugt 2215b); by descent to his son, Richard Hartshorne; (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 105); Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1946.

Associated Names

Hartshorne, Richard
Hartshorne, Robert
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1946: New acquisitions in the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no cat.

1956: Prints by the French Impressionists from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.

1971: The Indignant Eye, Boston University, 1971, no. 62.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Barricade.

Bibliography

1970: Harris, Jean C. Edouard Manet, graphic works; a definitive catalogue raisonne. New York: Collector's Editions, 1970.

1999: Wood, Paul, ed. The Challenge of the Avant-Garde. New Haven, 1999: 124, pl. 92.