Polichinelle Artist: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

1874–76

Prints and Drawings

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Édouard Manet was the first artist to make an original color lithograph. This print was intended to be inserted into the periodical Le temps and was printed in a run of eight thousand impressions, but the French police, seeing it as a caricature of the President of the Republic General Patrice de MacMahon, stopped its printing after only twenty-five impressions. At a later date, another print run was made.

Medium

Lithograph printed in seven colors

Dimensions

platemark: 18 1/8 × 13 3/16 in. (46 × 33.5 cm)
framed: 29 3/4 × 23 3/4 × 1 in. (75.6 × 60.3 × 2.5 cm)

Credit Line

The Arthur Ross Collection

Accession Number

2012.159.80

Culture

French

Period

19th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
William H. Schab Gallery, New York; Arthur Ross Foundation, New York, to 2012; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Suzanne Boorsch et al., Meant to Be Shared: The Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015), 139, pl. 57
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

lithographs

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