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Histoire d'Èdouard Manet et de son oeuvre
published 1902
Medium
illustrated book: 2 etchings by Manet, 21 full-page reproductions after Manet and 48
in-text illustrations, letterpress text; 301 pages, cloth-covered and half-leather boards
with gold tooling, glued and stitched binding, patterned endpapers
Measurements
(25.7 × 19.8 cm) (page) (26.7 × 21 × 3.2 cm) (closed)
Credit Line
Gift of John McPhee, 2025
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
French journalist, art critic and author Théodore Duret (1838–1927) was an advocate for the Impressionists and close friend of Édouard Manet, whom he met in 1865. His early Salon reviews championed the work of Manet, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas, and in 1878 Duret published Histoire des peintres impressionists, the first book to describe the development of Impressionism. Duret also published monographs on individual Impressionists; the first in 1902 was on Manet. This was a seminal account of the artist’s life and work and was issued as a deluxe publication. It was copiously illustrated and included two original etchings by Manet, Urchin with dog, 1862, and Olympia, 1867, which was made after the painting shown at the Salon of 1865.