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Édouard Manet and J. Lefman

Au café

1873

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Au café

1873

Physical Qualities Brush and ink transfer relief plate, Sheet: 276 x 348 mm. (10 7/8 x 13 11/16 in.) Image: 264 x 333 mm. (10 3/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.18058
The identification of this technique as "gillotage," or brush and ink transfer relief, rather than lithography is controversial; see the Description field in the records for Manet's illustrations of Poe's Raven for a summary of this issue. Catalogued by Harris as pen-manner lithograph.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Nov. 3 - 24, 1968.

BMA, "The Prints of Edouard Manet: A Centenary Celebration," 27 September - 20 November, 1983.

Jay McKean Fisher, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., "The Prints of Edouard Manet," May 1985 - June 1986, cat. no. 11, p. 43-44, ill. p. 43; circulated to The Detroit Institute of Art, May 14 - June 30, 1985; University Art Museum, Berkeley, Sept. 18 - Nov. 3; The St. Louis Art Museum, Nov. 23, 1985 - Jan. 5, 1986; Huntsville Museum of Art; Worcester Art Museum, Jan. 25 - Mar. 9, 1986; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Mar. 29 - May 11, 1986.

Jay McKean Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “Three Master Printmakers from the Nineteenth Century: Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt,” March 17-May 30, 1993

Jay Fisher, BMA, "Degas and the Little Dancer in Context," 4 October - 3 January 1999
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Museum; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, page 286, fig. 1.
Fisher, Jay McKean. "Manet's Illustrations for 'The Raven': Alternatives to Traditional Lithography," in Pat Gilmour, ed., Lasting Impressions: Lithography as Art (Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1988), p. 97 illustrated.
Fisher, Jay McKean. The Prints of Edouard Manet (Washington, D.C.: The International Exhibitions Foundation, 1985), p. 107 illustrated.

Inscribed: Signed in matrix: lower right "Manet"

Markings: None

Artist

Édouard Manet

1831–1882

French, 1832-1883
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Printer

J. Lefman

2000–2000

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