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Édouard Manet

Paris, 1832 - Paris, 1883

Boy in Flowers (Jacques Hoschedé)

Date	1876
Materials and Techniques	oil on canvas
Size（cm）	60 x 97
Inscriptions	Signed lower right: Manet
Credit Line	Purchased
Standard ref.	Jamot 253; Rouart 247
Category	Paintings
Collection Number	P.1982-0001

During the summer of 1876 Manet visited the small village of Montgeron in the province of Seine-et-Oise to the east of Paris upon the invitation of a patron of the Impressionists, the businessman Ernest Hoschedé. (Hoschedé's wife Alice later became Monet's second wife). During his two week visit Manet painted this and several other works to decorate the Hoschedé country home. However, Manet returned to Paris with works unfinished and they remained in his studio until his death in 1883. This work shows Jacques, the oldest son among Hoschedé's six children, in the flower garden of the Hoschedé home. The painting also shows a decorative vase that appears occasionally in other works by Manet. During this period Manet abandoned his 1860s painting style with its heavy use of black and its flat application of color, and began to use a brighter palette and livelier brushwork under the influence of the Impressionists, particularly Monet. He painted scenes from "modern life" under bright outdoor light and the formal and subject characteristics of this work confirm the style of his 1870s work. The decorative composition also suggests the influence of Japanese art, particularly that of the Rimpa school. (Source: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2009, cat. no.68)

Provenance

Eduard Manet (posthumous inventory, 1833, no. 80); Auc., Manet Hôtel Drouout, Paris, 4-5 February 1884, no. 66; Dr. Robin Coll., Paris (acquired at the above sale); Leclanché Coll., Paris; Durand-Ruel, Paris, ca. 1902; The Lefevre Gallery, London, by which sold to the NMWA, 1982, Purchased by the NMWA, 1982.

Exhibition History

1880: Œuvres Nouvelles d'Edouard Manet, La Vie Moderne, Paris, 8 April 1880 - 30 April 1880, no. 9
1884: Exposition posthume, Manet, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 6 January 1884 - 28 January 1884, no. 83
1928: Edouard Manet, Gelerie Matthiesen, Berlin, 6 February 1928 - 18 March 1928, no. 36
1928: Œuvres de Manet, au Profit des Amis du Luxembourg, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 0 April 1928 - 0 May 1928, no. 16
1951: Les Origines de l'Art Contemporain, Hôtel de Ville, Rennes, 0 1951 - 0 1951, no. 19
1961: Manet, Musée Cantini, Marseille, 16 May 1961 - 31 July 1961, no. 18
1964: La Douce France, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 7 August 1964 - 11 October 1964, no. 28
1965: Der Japonismus in der Malerei und Graphik des 19. Jahrhunderts etc., Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 26 September 1965 - 11 October 1965, no. 12, repr.
1970: Französische Impressionisten, Hommage à Durand-Ruel, Kunstverein, Hamburg, 0 1970 - 0 1970, no. 19
1974: Cent ans d'impressionisme, 1874-1974, Hommage à Paul Durand-Ruel, Garelie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 15 January 1974 - 15 March 1974, cat. no. 26
1974: Le Centnaire de l'Impressionisme, Ginza Matsuzakaya, 25 July 1974 - 11 August 1974, Sapporo Matsuzakaya, 25 July-11 August; Osaka Matsuzakaya, 5 September-17 September; Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, 20 September-30 September; Nagoya Matsuzakaya, 3 October-15 October; etc.,cat. no. 30
1982: Important XIX & XX Century Works of Art, The Lefevre Gallery, London, 0 1982 - 0 1982, cat. no. 6, repr.
1985: Peintures Françaises du Rococo à l'École de Paris, Himeji City Museum of Art, 1 June 1985 - 23 June 1985, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, 29 June-21 July; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 26 July-18 August; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, 23 August-16 September; etc., no. 32, repr.
1989: The French Modern Painting, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Miyakonojo City Museum, 15 April 1989 - 14 May 1989, cat. no. 3, repr.
1991: World Impressionism and Pleinairism, Matsuzakaya Art Museum, 21 March 1991 - 6 May 1991, Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, 14 May-16 June 1991; Hiroshima Museum of Art, 22 June-28 July 1991, cat. no. 3, col. repr.
1994: Impressionism: 20th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating Population of Two Million in Gunma Prefecture, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 21 September 1994 - 6 November 1994, cat. no. 37,col. repr.
1996: The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 91
1997: Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 18
2011: The Locus of Art: Aesthetics of Seiro Mayekawa from Dürer to Tsune Nakamura, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 3 September 2011 - 10 October 2011, cat. no. 1, col. repr.
2013: Monet, An Eye for Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings, Pola Museum of Art, 13 July 2013 - 24 November 2013, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 December 2013-9 March 2014, cat. no. 7, col. repr.
2015: Japan's Love for Impressionism: From Monet to Renoir, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 8 October 2015 - 21 February 2016, cat. no. 62, col. repr.
2017: Monet the Collector, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, 14 September 2017 - 14 January 2018, cat. no. 78, col. repr.
2019: Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years, The Art Institute of Chicago, 26 May 2019 - 8 September 2019, cat. no. 6

Bibliography

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1926: Moreau-Nélaton, Étienne. Manet raconté par lui-même. vol. 2, Paris, 1926, pp. 31-32, fig. 202, repr, manuscript catalogue no. 1955.
1932: Jamot, Paul; Wildenstein, Georges. Manet. Paris, 1932, no. 253, fig. 331, repr.
1947: Tabarant, Adolphe. Manet et ses œuvres. 5e éd, Paris, 1947, pp. 292, 540, 611, no. 257, repr.
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1992: The French Modern Art, from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, ed. Okinawa, Urasoe Art Museum, 1992, p.13, cat. no. 3, col. repr
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2009: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 68, col. repr.
2011: The Locus of Art: Aesthetics of Seiro Mayekawa from Dürer to Tsune Nakamura(exh. cat.). [Nagaoka], Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 2011, cat. no. 1, col. repr.
2013: Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 84, col. repr.
2013: MONET, An Eye For Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings(exh. cat.). Tokyo, TBS, c2013, cat. no. 7, col. repr.
2015: Japan's Love for Impressionism: From Monet to Renoir (exh. cat.). Marks-Hanssen, Beate, ed. Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle, 2015, pp. 107, 245, cat. no. 62, col. repr.
2017: Monet the Collector (exh. cat.). Mathieu, Marianne; Lobstein, Dominique. Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet, 2017, pp. 224-225, cat. no. 78, col. repr.
2019: Manet and Modern Beauty: The artist's last years(exh. cat.). Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2019], cat. no. 6, col. repr.

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