Edouard Manet, 'Music in the Tuileries Gardens', 1862
About the work
Overview
A fashionable and wealthy crowd that includes many artists and intellectuals has gathered in the Tuileries Gardens to listen to one of the twice-weekly concerts given there. Manet himself stands at the far left of the picture holding a cane, his body cut by the edge of the canvas and partly obscured by the man in front of him, the animal painter Comte Albert de Balleroy. He is a participant in the scene but also slightly detached from it.
Painted in 1862, this was Manet’s first major painting of contemporary life in Second Empire Paris (1852–1870) and is an early example of his interest in urban leisure, a subject that would preoccupy him for the rest of his life, as it would the Impressionists. But it is also a group portrait of Manet and his family, friends and associates.
The painting has the status of an artistic manifesto and has justifiably been described as the earliest example of modern painting due to its subject matter and technique.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- Music in the Tuileries Gardens
- Artist
- Edouard Manet
- Artist dates
- 1832 - 1883
- Date made
- 1862
- Medium and support
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.2 × 118.1 cm
- Inscription summary
- Signed; Dated
- Acquisition credit
- Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
- Inventory number
- NG3260
- Location
- On loan: Long Loan to The Hugh Lane (2019 - 2026) (Group B), Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
- Collection
- Main Collection
- Frame
- 20th-century Replica Frame
Provenance
Additional information
Text extracted from the ‘Provenance’ section of the catalogue entry in Martin Davies, with additions and some revisions by Cecil Gould, ‘National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, etc.’, London 1970 and supplemented by Isobel Muir; for further information, see the full catalogue entry.
Exhibition history
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2006Long Loan to The Hugh Lane (2006 - 2013) (Group B)Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane31 December 2006 - 1 January 2013
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2012Manet: Portraying LifeRoyal Academy of Arts26 January 2013 - 14 April 2013
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2014Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art MarketMusée du Luxembourg9 October 2014 - 8 February 2015Philadelphia Museum of Art24 June 2015 - 13 September 2015
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2015Delacroix and the Rise of Modern ArtMinneapolis Institute of Art18 October 2015 - 10 January 2016
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2018Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to CézanneThe National Gallery (London)17 September 2018 - 20 January 2019
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2019Long Loan to The Hugh Lane (2019 - 2026) (Group B)Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane20 October 2019 - 23 February 2026
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2021Manet and Astruc: Friendship and InspirationKunsthalle Bremen23 October 2021 - 27 February 2022
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1863P. de Saint-Victor, 'Beaux-arts', La Presse, 1863
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1867E. Zola, Edouard Manet: Étude biographique et critique, Paris 1867
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1867H. Babou, 'Les Dissidents de l'Exposition, M. Edouard Manet', La Revue libérale, II, 1867
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1867L. Leroy, 'Les expositions de Mm. Courbet et Manet', Le Charivari, 1867
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1884E. Bazire, Manet, Paris 1884
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1932T. Bodkin, Hugh Lane and his Pictures, Dublin 1932
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1932P. Jamot, G. Wildenstein and M.-L. Bataille, Manet, Paris 1932
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1939L. Venturi, Les archives de l'impressionnisme, Paris 1939
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1941G. Jedlicka, Edouard Manet, Zürich 1941
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1942P. Tabarant, La vie artistique au temps de Baudelaire, Paris 1942
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1947M. Florisoone, Manet, Monaco 1947
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1947A. Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres, Paris 1947
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1954N.G. Sandblad, Manet: Three Studies in Artistic Conception, Lund 1954
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1954G.H. Hamilton, Manet and His Critics, New Haven 1954
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1955J.-L. Vaudoyer, E. Manet, Paris 1955
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1957Martin Davies, National Gallery Catalogues: French School, 2nd edn (revised), London 1957
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1959J.W.H. Hemmings and R.J. Niess, E. Zola: Salons, Paris 1959
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1961A. Bowness, 'A Note on Manet's Compositional Difficulties', The Burlington Magazine, CIII/699, 1961, pp. 276-7
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1964T. Reff, 'The Meanings of Manet's Olympia', Gazette des beaux-arts, 1964
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1966G.H. Hamilton, 'Is Manet Still "Modern"?', Art News Annual, XXXI, 1966, pp. 121-3
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1968P. Schneider, The World of Manet 1832-1883, New York 1968
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1969B. Farwell, 'Manet's Espada and Mercantonio', Metropolitan Museum Journal, II, 1969
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1969M. Fried, 'Manet's Sources', Art Forum, VII, 1969, pp. 28-82
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1969T. Reff, 'Manet's Sources. A Critical Evolution', Art Forum, VII/1, 1969, pp. 40-8
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1969L.B. Hyslop and F. Hyslop, 'Baudelaire and Manet: A Reappraisal', in Baudelaire as a Love Poet and Other Essays, Univerisity Park PA 1969, pp. 87-130
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1970Davies, Martin, and Cecil Gould, National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc., London 1970
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1970S. Orienti and P. Pool, The Complete Paintings of Manet, London 1970
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1972G. Bazin, Edouard Manet, Milan 1972
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1972A.C. Hanson, 'Popular Imagery and the Work of Edouard Manet', in U. Finke (ed.), French 19th Century Painting and Literature, Manchester 1972, pp. 133-63
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1974A. Callen, 'Faure and Manet', Gazette des beaux-arts, 1974, pp. 157-78
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1975D. Rouart and D. Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, Lausanne 1975
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1977A.C. Hanson, Manet and the Modern Tradition, New Haven 1977
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1979J. Manet, Journal (1893-1899), Paris 1979
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1981J.S. Hallam, 'The Two Manners of Louis-Léopold Boilly and French Genre Painting in Transition', Art Bulletin, 1981
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1982J. Richardson, Manet, Oxford 1982
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1982T. Reff, Manet and Modern Paris: One Hundred Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Photographs by Manet and His Contemporaries (exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 December 1982 - 6 March 1983), Washington 1982
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1983M. Wilson, French Painting after 1800, London 1983
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1983J. Clay, 'Ointments, Makeup, Pollen', October, XXVII, 1983, pp. 3-44
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1983D. Sutton, 'Edouard Manet: The Artist as Dandy', Apollo, 1983, pp. 330-41
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1983F. Cachin and C.S. Moffett, Manet, 1832-1883 (exh. cat. Grand Palais, 22 April - 1 August 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10 September - 27 November 1983), Paris 1983
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1983M. Wilson, Manet at Work: An Exhibition to Mark the Centenary of the Death of Edouard Manet, 1832-1883 (exh. cat. The National Gallery, London, 10 August - 9 October 1983), London 1983
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1984J. Wilson-Bareau, 'The Portrait of Ambroise Adam by Edouard Manet', The Burlington Magazine, CXXVI, 1984, pp. 750-8
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1985D. Carrier, 'Manet and His Interpreters', Art History, 1985, pp. 320-35
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1986K. Adler, Manet, Oxford 1986
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1987J. Manet, Growing Up with the Impressionists. The Diary of Julie Manet, eds R. de Boland Roberts and J. Roberts, London 1987
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1988R.L. Herbert, Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, New Haven 1988
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1989H. Keller, Edouard Manet, Munich 1989
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1990F. Cachin, Manet, Paris 1990
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1990D. Bomford, R. White and L. Williams, Impressionism (exh. cat. The National Gallery, 1990), London 1990
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1991J. Wilson-Bareau (ed.), Manet by Himself, London 1991
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1991J. Wilson-Bareau, 'Review: Art in the Making: Impressionism', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIII/1055, 1991, pp. 127-9
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1992S. Carr-Gomm, Manet, London 1992
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1992C. Prendergast, Paris and the Nineteenth Century, Oxford 1992
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1992L. Stevenson, Manet, London 1992
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1993F.F. Frascina et al., Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century, New Haven 1993
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1993R. White and J. Pilc, 'Analyses of Paint Media', National Gallery Technical Bulletin, XIV, 1993, pp. 86-94
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1993R.-M. Hagen and R. Hagen, 'Edouard Manet: "Musik im Tuileriengarten", 1862: Ein Bild als Programm der Moderne art', Art, 1993
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1994J. House, Impressionisim for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, London 1994
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1994J.H. Rubin, Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets, London 1994
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1994G. Tinterow and H. Loyrette, Origins of Impressionism, (exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), New York 1994
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1994R. Lethbridge, 'Manet's Textural Frames', in P. Collier and R. Lethbridge (eds), Artistic Relations: Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth Century France, New Haven 1994, pp. 144-57
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1994J. Wilson-Bareau, 'Pastiche or Parallelism? Baudelaire and other Keys to Manet's Relationship with Goya', in J. Held (ed.), Goya: Neue Forschungen, Berlin 1994, pp. 205-25
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1995H. Düchting, Edouard Manet: Images of Parisian Life, Munich 1995
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1996M. Fried, Manet's Modernism, or the Face of Painting in the 1860s, Chicago 1996
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1996C. Keisch and M.U. Riemann-Reyher (eds), Adolph Menzel 1815-1905: Between Romanticism and Impressionism, New Haven 1996
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1997D. Fernandez, Le musée d'Emile Zola: Haines et passions, Paris 1997
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1997E. Williams, The Impressionists' Paris: Walking Tours of the Painters' Studios, Homes, and the Sites They Painted, New York 1997
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1998D.W. Pitman, Bazille: Purity, Pose, and Painting in the 1860s, Univerisity Park PA 1998
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1998National Gallery, Places in Art, London 1998
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1998E. Roters, Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts: Themen und Motive, Cologne 1998
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1998G. Galligan, 'The Self Pictured: Manet, the Mirror, and the Occupation of Realist Painting', Art Bulletin, LXXX/1, 1998, pp. 138-71
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1999A. Dumas, Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums (exh. cat. High Museum of Art, 23 February - 16 May 1999; Seattle Art Museum, 12 June - 29 August 1999; Denver Art Museum, 2 October - 12 Decmebr 1999), Atlanta 1999
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1999M. Wilson, The Tuileries Incident (exh. cat. Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 1999), Dublin 1999
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2000J.-L. Chalumeau, La ville dans l'art, Paris 2000
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2000B. Thomson, Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception, London 2000
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2000M. Goldin (ed.), La nascita dell'impressionismo (exh. cat. Casa dei Carraresi, 9 September 2000 - 14 January 2001), Conegliano 2000
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2001
C. Baker and T. Henry, The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London 2001
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2001N. Locke, Manet and the Family Romance, Princeton/Oxford 2001
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2001M. Goldin (ed.), Monet: I luoghi della pittura (exh. cat. Casa dei Carraresi, 29 September 2001-10 February 2002), Conegliano 2001
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2002I. Conzen, Edouard Manet und die Impressionisten, Stuttgart (Staatsgalerie)/Ostfildern-Ruit 2002
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2003M.B. Mena Marqués (ed.), Manet en el Prado (exh. cat. Museo Nacional del Prado, 13 October 2003 - 11 January 2004), Madrid 2003
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2004A. Rustenholz, Paris des avant-gardes: Auw rendez-vous des amis, des romantiques aux existentialistes, Paris 2004
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2004A. Graham-Dixon, 'In the Picture: Music in the Tuileries Gardens (1862; 30x46in) by Edouard Manet', Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 2004
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2004M. Korn, 'Exhibition of Modern French Art and Their Influence on Collectors in Britain 1870-1918: The Davies Sisters in Context', Journal of the History of Collections, XVI/2, 2004, pp. 191-218
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2006C. Riopelle, Manet to Picasso, London 2006
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2006A. Sturgis et al., Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century (exh. cat. The National Gallery, 28 June - 28 August 2006), London 2006
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