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In the line of fire: Manet's 'The Execution of Maximilian'

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  • J. Meier-Graefe, 'Edouard Manet', Munich, 1912, pp. 182ff.
  • E. Moreau-Nélaton, 'Manet raconté par lui-même', Paris, 1926, I, pp. 92-3.
  • J. C. Sloane, 'Manet and History', The Art Quarterly, 1951, pp. 95ff.
  • M. Davies, 'Recent Manet Literature', Burlington Magazine, May 1956, pp. 169-171.
  • D. Rouart & D. Wildenstein, 'Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné', Lausanne/Paris, 1975, I, no. 126.
  • P. M. Jones et al., 'Edouard Manet and the Execution of Maximilian', exh. cat. Brown University, Providence, 1981, esp. pp. 16-17 and 194.
  • J. Wilson-Bareau, 'The Hidden Face of Manet: An Investigation of the Artist's Working Processes', exh. cat. Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1986, pp. 48ff.
  • E. Darragon, 'Manet', Paris, 1989, pp. 264f.
  • J. Wilson-Bareau et al., 'Manet: The Execution of Maximilian: Painting, Politics and Censorship', The National Gallery, London, 1992.
  • O. Bätschmann, 'Edouard Manet: Der Tod des Maximilian. Eine Kunst-Monographie', Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, 1993.
  • Manet, 'Maximiliano y México', Saber ver., no. 13, Nov.-Dec. 1993.
  • Manet, 'Maximiliano y México', Saber ver., no. 14, Jan.-Feb. 1994.             
  • M. Fried, 'Manet’s Modernism, or The Face of Painting in the 1860s', Chicago and London, 1996, esp. pp. 346-64.
  • Dumas, G. Tinterow et al., 'The Private Collection of Edgar Degas', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, esp. pp. 3ff, 181 and 293ff.
  • T. J. Clark, 'The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers', London, 1999.
  • J. Elderfield, 'Manet and the Execution of Maximilian', exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006-7.
  • J. H. Rubin, 'Manet: Initial M, Hand and Eye', Paris, c.2010, pp. 222-6.