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image of Oysters
Edouard Manet (artist)
French, 1832 - 1883
Oysters, 1862
oil on canvas
Overall: 39.2 x 46.8 cm (15 7/16 x 18 7/16 in.) framed: 60 x 67.6 x 8.9 cm (23 5/8 x 26 5/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
Gift of the Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc.
1962.3.1
From the Tour: Manet and His Influence
Object 2 of 7

Exhibition History

1884
Exposition Manet, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1884, no. 18.
1912
Exposition d'art moderne a l'Hôtel de la Revue "Les Arts", Paris, 1912, no. 29, as Nature morte--Huitres.
1928
Edouard Manet, Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, 1928, no. 6.
1930
Vincent van Gogh en zijn Tijdgenooten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1930, no. 212.
1932
Manet, Musée de L'Orangerie, Paris, 1932, no. 11.
1937
Chefs d'oeuvre de l'art français, Palais National des Arts, Paris, 1937, no. 355.
1938
La peinture française du XIXe siècle en Suisse, Paris, 1938, no. 61, repro.
1946
Paintings from New York Private Collections, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946, unnumbered catalogue.
1961
The Mrs. Adele R. Levy Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961, unnumbered catalogue.
1986
Capolavori Impressionisti dei Musei Americani, Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples; Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 1986-1987, no. 23, repro.
1986
Degas and His Friends, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 1986, no. 24.
1989
Manet, Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, 1989, no. 6, repro.
1990
Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 21, repro.
1992
From El Greco to Cezanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, 1992-1993, no. 42, repro.
1999
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.
1999
Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 16, repro.
2000
Cézanne-Manet-Schuch. Drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst [Cézanne-Manet-Schuch. Three Paths toward Autonomous Art], Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund, 2000, no. 13, repro.
2000
Manet: The Still-Life Paintings, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 2000-2001, pl. 15.

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