Edouard MANET (1832 – 1883)
Le Christ Jardinier
ca. 1856-60
Oil on canvas
68 x 57 cm. / 26.8 x 22.4 in.

• CERTIFICATE by the Wildenstein institute, Paris.

• LITERATURE:
– Rouart-Wildenstein, Edouard Manet Catalogue Raisonné, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1975, vol.I, no. 14 (ill.)
– Théodore Duret, Histoire d’Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre, Floury, Paris, 1902, p. 207, No. 60 (ill.)
– Französische Kunst des XIX. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Heinemann, Munich, April 1913, no. 121 (ill.)
– P. Jamot et G. Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Introduction par Paul Jamot, Paris 1932, no. 6 (ill.)
– A. Tabarant, Manet et ses Oeuvres, Paris 1947, p.24, no. 16 “Christ à la pioche” (ill.)
– D. Rouart et S. Orienti, Tout l’Oeuvre Peint d’Edouard Manet, Flammarion 1970, Nr. 12 (ill)
– Nancy Locke, Manet and the Family Romance, Princeton University Press, 2001, p. 136 (ill.)
– Peter Russell, Complete Works of Édouard Manet, Delphi Classics, 2016 (ill.)
– “MANET- SEHEN, Der Blick Der Moderne”, Hamburger Kunsthalle exhibition catalog (Imhof Verlag 2016), Kat. 11 p.116 (ill. with an error of dimension)
– Art Institute of Chicago website “Manet Online Scholarly Catalogue”, cat. 5 “Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers”, fig. 5.8, https://publications.artic.edu/manet/reader/manetart/section/140031 :

• PROVENANCE:
– Inventory of Manet’s estate in 1883, Paris, n. 86. Found in the artist’s studio.
– Abbé Hurel (Auguste-Jean, b.1831) vicar of La Madeleine Church, Paris.
– Marquis de Narbonne-Lara (Louis-Henry Manrique,1825-1900), 248 rue de Rivoli, Paris. Collector and parishioner of La Madeleine, Abbe Hurel’s church.
– Galerie Heinemann, München, 1912.
– Dr. Richard Werner, Stuttgart, 1916.
– Then by descent Richard Werner family, Stuttgart.
– Private collection.

• EXHIBITION:
– Manet- Painting the Gaze, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 27 May – 4 September 2016: