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MANET, Edouard (1832-1883) "Oloron Sainte-Marie"

Height: 16-3/4"   Width: 24-1/2"

Painted shortly after 1870.

A roof terrace overlooking other houses and a river. A man, identified as Leon Leenhoff (a relative of Manet's) is leaning on the railing. In the foreground a cat. As soon as Manet was able to leave Paris after the last siege (right after the war of 1870) he went to Oloron Ste. Marie to join his family and to paint various studies and pictures. This picture was painted on the terrace of a house on the River Pau, and belonging to Monsieur de Lailhacar where Mme. Manet and Leon Leenhoff took refuge during the war of 1870.

See: photograph of the house and landscape as they still appear today. The house is unchanged.

Collections: Sold by Manet to M. Gauthier-Lathuille in 1881.
Madame Jolliot (daughter of M Gauthier-Lathuille)

Bibliography: Jamot and Wildenstein "Catalogue Critique de Manet" No. 188. Reproduced Fig. No. 373.
"Kunst und Künstler" February 1930, P. 203 (Reproduced)
Tabarant "Catalogue de Manet" No. 161 bis.
(x) Albert Flamand "Tableaux de Paris" in Revue de Paris, July 1, 1930

Exhibited: Bieniale, Venice, 1934. Retrospective Exhibition No. 7.

(x) Albert Flamand in "Revue de Paris" - (translation)

"I recently entered a picture dealer's who told me with grace, 'Monsieur Flamand, do you like Manet?' He was quickly convinced of my reply........
It was a Manet, oainted [[painted]] very shortly after the war of 1870, at Oloron Ste.Marie where Mesdames Manet, the mother and wife of the artist, spent most of their time during the hostilities. What to say of these slate roofs in a spring landscape, of the man leaning in the foreground, on the edge of a covered terrace, to the supports painted in red? Nothing, unless they witnessed the ecstasy of painting, in every sense of the words.
For a long time, always, poor harrassed [[harassed]] men will stop in front of similar canvases, in front of a sky by Boudin, a winding in the Seine by Monet, for all the personal bygone sensations of their lives which they will find again in them, and for the amount of future life that the mere painting of a wall suggests."

Price...$40,000.-