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La queue devant la boucherie (The queue in front of the butcher's shop)

Maker

(artist)
1832-1883

(etcher)
1832-1883

(publisher)
1871-1954

Title

La queue devant la boucherie (The queue in front of the butcher's shop)

Date of Production

1871

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 23.9 cm
Width: 16 cm

Accession Number

G.1934.SC.190.29

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1934

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


Butcher shops

Related Works

Recueil de trente eaux-fortes

Label Text

Manet was deeply moved by the sight of people queuing for food during the four-month Siege of Paris in 1870 and he made it the subject of this print. The density and movement of the crowd huddled under umbrellas outside the butcher’s shop are brilliantly depicted. None of the forms are drawn with a single contour. Their shapes are only evident through the contrasting patterns of short parallel shading and blank areas of paper.

Provenance

Strölin, Paris; purchased by Samuel Courtauld from Percy Moore Turner, 7 February 1934; Courtauld Gift, 1934.

Exhibition History

Courtauld Connects Regional Programme, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 13/11/2020-16/05/2021

Special Display - Impressionist Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 13/06/2008-13/10/2008

The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998 ...More

The Art of Etching - Prints from the Courtauld Collection
selected by Christopher Le Brun, London & England, 05/02/1997-25/05/1997 ...Less

Literature

Salmon, Dimitri, Percy Moore Turner, Précieux Conseiller de Samuel and Elizabeth Courtauld, Fondation Louis Vuitton 2019
pp. 33n151, 34n154, 36n165, 38, no. 57-86 on p. 80

Inscriptions

Inscription: unsigned

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