Edouard Manet, 'The Execution of Maximilian', about 1867-8

Provenance

Additional information

Exhibition history

• 2014
  The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour: Manet's 'The Execution of Maximilian'

  The Beaney

  17 January 2014 - 16 March 2014

  The Bowes Museum

  22 March 2014 - 18 May 2014

  Mead Gallery, University of Warwick

  4 October 2014 - 6 December 2014
• 2016
  Painters' Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck

  The National Gallery (London)

  23 June 2016 - 4 September 2016
• 2023
  Manet / Degas

  Musée d'Orsay

  27 March 2023 - 23 July 2023

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  18 September 2023 - 7 January 2024

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• 1910
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• 1912
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• 1918
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• 1926
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• 1926
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• 1936
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• 1936
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• 1946
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• 1947
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• 1947
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• 1948
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• 1970
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• 1972
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• 1973
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• 1975
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• 1977
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• 1977
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• 1977
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• 1979
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• 1981
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• 1982
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• 1983
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• 1983
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• 1983
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• 1984
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• 1986
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• 1987
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• 1989
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• 1989
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• 1992
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• 1992
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• 1992
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• 1993
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• 1993
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• 1993
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• 1994
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• 1994
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• 1994
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• 1996
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• 1996
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• 2000
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• 2001

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• 2002
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• 2003
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• 2003
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• 2005
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• 2006
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• 2006
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