Terms and conditions of use
The house at Rueil
(La Maison à Rueil)
1882
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
92.8 × 73.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
In 1882 Édouard Manet spent the summer at this house in Rueil. By then he was much affected by terminal illness, but during his stay in this Restoration-style villa he was still able to sit outside under a tree and paint a number of views of the garden and the sunlit facade of the house. Exploiting the principle that complementary colours heighten each other when juxtaposed, Manet has here evoked the dazzling effects of bright summer light.
Frame: reproduction, 2009, based on a photograph from 1884
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in green paint l.l.: Manet / 1882
Accession Number
2050-3
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Architecture Landscape Architecture
Subjects (specific)
façades France (nation) gardens (open spaces) houses Paris (inhabited place) shutters (opening covers) trees windows
Movements
Impressionism
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Jean-Baptiste Fauré (1830–1913), Paris, 1883; with Theodor Behrens (1857–1921), Hamburg, by 1921; with Galerie Barbazanges (dealer), Paris, 1923; from where purchased by Knoedler Gallery (dealer), Paris branch, 15/18 June 1923, no. 7052[1]; transferred to New York branch, 21 November 1924, no. 15649; transferred to Paris branch, May/June 1925; sold to Richard Dudensing & Son (dealer-collector), New York, 21 September 1925; sold by Valentine Dudensing to Knoedler Gallery, November 1925, no. 16333[2]; transferred to London branch, May 1926 no. 7768; from where purchased, for the Felton Bequest, 8 July 1926.
[1] See M. Knoedler & Co. records, approximately 1848-1971, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2012.M.54, Series I.A, box 7, Painting stock book 7: 15140-17039, January 1921 – December 1927, p. 53, row 39.
[2] Ibid., p. 103, row 54.
Frame
Reproduction, 2009, based on a photograph from 1884
Frame
The project to reframe Manet’s, The house at Rueil, 1882, began in 2006. Proposals for reframing were tabled at a frame committee meeting in April. At this meeting the Senior Curator International Art recalled an image of the framed painting on exhibition in 1884. The image appears in MANET RACONTÉ PAR LUI-MÊME, 1926, and includes images of all the paintings on display in the posthumous Manet retrospective of 1884.
Considerable research was undertaken to determine what the frame in the photograph actually looked like. Initially it was thought a period frame would be found but the frame appears to be a singular example. A quote to construct a replica, based on the available evidence, was received in April 2008. After much deliberation the frieze section of the frame was based on the frieze section of the eighteenth century French frame on Largillierre’s Crown Prince Frederick Augustus in the collection of the NGV.
The frame is described as: “Hand made and water gilded reproduction of French Empire Neoclassical Revival frame with ornamental mouldings cast in plaster of Paris: leaf, Berainesque frieze, beading, ribbon and cord. (Original pattern illustrated on Manet’s House at Rueil)”.
The frame was fitted to the painting in June 2009.
Assistance with the cost of this frame came from NGV Members.
Frame Details
Framemaker
Reproduction - commissioned by the NGV
Date
2009