Madame Manet in the Conservatory

Madame Manet in the Conservatory[1] is an 1879 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet of his wife Suzanne. It is now in the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway.

It shows its subject in a conservatory, where she often came to help Manet out with sittings for his In the Conservatory.[2] She reluctantly parted from the work in August 1895 due to a pressing need for money. It was bought from her for 6000 francs by Maurice Joyant, art collector and childhood friend of Toulouse-Lautrec.[3] In July 1911, Joyant sold it is to Georges Bernheim. The Friends of the National Gallery of Norway acquired it in 1918.

Manet also had a copy of it made by Jean-Georges Vibert for Suzanne's illegitimate son Léon Leenhoff, whose father was probably Manet himself. This circulated in Germany for a long period as an original Manet work.[4]

References
  1. "Lobstein, Manet, p. 102".
  2. (Cachin, Moffett & Wilson-Bareau 1983, p. 437)
  3. (Cachin, Moffett & Wilson-Bareau 1983, p. 438).
  4. (Tabarant 1947, p. 342)

Bibliography
  • Timothy James Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999, 376 p. (ISBN 978-0691009032).
  • (in French) Françoise Cachin, Charles S. Moffett and Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Manet 1832-1883, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1983, 544 p. (ISBN 2-7118-0230-2)
  • (in French) Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, Gallimard, 1947, 600 p.
  • (in French) Adolphe Tabarant, Les Manet de la collection Havemeyer : La Renaissance de l'art français, Paris, 1930, XIII éd.
  • (in French) Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Manet raconté par lui-même, vol. 2, t. I and II, Paris, Henri Laurens, 1926.
  • (in French) Henri Loyrette and Gary Tinterow, Impressionnisme : Les origines, 1859-1869, 476 p. (ISBN 978-2711828203).
  • (in French) Collectif RMN, Manet inventeur du moderne, Paris, 2011, 297 p. (ISBN 978-2-07-013323-9)
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