Double bass player

Manet, Edouard (1832-1883)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1878
Height:
18.5 cm  (7 5/16 in.)
Width:
23.7 cm  (9 5/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
graphite on cream laid paper
Place of creation:
France

    Item location

  • Cantor Arts Center (Stanford University)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1987.44]Provenance: Sven H.A. Bruntjen (dealer), Woodside, CA; sold to the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 1987.

Description

Left profile of the head of a double-bass player with the neck of the instrument resting on his left shoulder and his left hand on the neck of the instrument. The body of the instrument is not visible. Footlights on the stage are to the left at the level of his head.

Iconclass

48C752
one person playing an instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Double bass [3111] (Only the neck and scroll are visible.)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Manet, Édouard, Juliet Wilson Bareau, Malcolm Park, and Mariantonia Reinhard-Felice. Manet trifft Manet: geteilt, wiedervereint; Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz", Winterthur, [24. September 2005-29. Januar 2006] (Basel: Schwabe, 2005) 42-43, fig. 30.

Eitner, Lorenz, Betsy Geraghty Fryberger, Carol Margot Osborne, and Dwight C. Miller. Stanford University Museum of Art, the Drawing Collection (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Museum of Art, 1993) 356, no. 395.

Guffey, Elizabeth. "Manet the double bass player, and the art of realism", The Stanford Museum 16-17 (1986–87) 14–18.

Notes

On portions of two sketchbook pages glued together.

RIdIM record id

5363