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Woman with a Cat
Purchased 1918
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<p>This unfinished portrait is of Manet's wife. It is one of his later works, painted a few years before his death at the age of fifty-one. These were the most freely painted of his career. He then also used pastel, and the parallel shading of this sketch is like the application of pastels. Manet then favoured small scale and casual subjects.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
Loan-out
21 September 2002 – 9 February 2003
2003-02-09
21 September 2002 – 9 February 2003
2003-02-09
2002-09-21
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
2002-09-21
Manet and the Impressionists
Loan-out
26 January 2012 – 1 January 2013
2013-01-01
26 January 2012 – 14 April 2012
2012-04-14
2012-01-26
Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
4 October 2012 – 1 January 2013
2013-01-01
2012-10-04
Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, USA)
2012-01-26
Manet: from Portrait to Tableau
Loan-out
22 June 2016 – 4 September 2016
2016-09-04
22 June 2016 – 4 September 2016
2016-09-04
2016-06-22
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2016-06-22
Painters' Paintings
Loan-out
22 October 2017 – 25 February 2018
2018-02-25
22 October 2017 – 25 February 2018
2018-02-25
2017-10-22
Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany)
2017-10-22
Edouard Manet
Loan-out
26 May 2019 – 12 January 2020
2020-01-12
26 May 2019 – 8 September 2019
2019-09-08
2019-05-26
The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA)
http://www.artic.edu/aic
8 October 2019 – 12 January 2020
2020-01-12
2019-10-08
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, USA)
2019-05-26
Manet and Modern Beauty
Loan-out
19 October 2021 – 20 March 2022
2022-03-20
19 October 2021 – 20 March 2022
2022-03-20
2021-10-19
Musée Marmottan Monet (Paris, France)
2021-10-19
Julie Manet, une éducation impressionniste
Loan-out
27 March 2023 – 7 January 2024
2024-01-07
27 March 2023 – 23 July 2023
2023-07-23
2023-03-27
Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France)
18 September 2023 – 7 January 2024
2024-01-07
2023-09-18
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2023-03-27
Manet Degas
Loan-out
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
2026-05-01
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
2026-05-01
2025-05-01
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2025-05-01
National Gallery Bicentenary
Loan-out
Woman with a Cat
support: 921 × 730 mm
frame: 1070 × 876 × 78 mm
Purchased 1918
<p>This unfinished <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> is of Manet's wife. It is one of his later works, painted a few years before his death at the age of fifty-one. These were the most freely painted of his career. He then also used <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pastel" title="Glossary definition for 'Pastel'"><span>pastel</span></a>, and the parallel shading of this sketch is like the application of pastels. Manet then favoured small scale and casual subjects.</p>
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<p><b>Edouard Manet</b> 1832-1883 
</p><p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/manet-woman-with-a-cat-n03295" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03295</span></a> <b>La Femme au Chat</b> (Woman with a Cat) c.1880</p>
<p>Not inscribed 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 (92 x 73) 
<br/>Purchased at the Degas sale (Special Grant-in-Aid) 1918 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: [?Carolus-Duran, Paris]; with Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Edgar Degas, Paris, 1895; sale of the Degas collection, Petit, Paris, 26-27 March 1918, lot 77 repr. as 'La Femme au Chat' 
<br/><i>Exh: Manet and his Circle</i>, Tate Gallery, April-June 1954 (17); <i>Edouard Manet</i> 1832-1883, Philadelphia Museum of Art, November-December 1966 (182, repr.); Art Institute of Chicago, January-February 1967 (182, repr.) 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Théodore Duret, <i>Histoire de Edouard Manet et de son Oeuvre</i> (Paris 1926), supplement No. 7, p.300; A. Tabarant, <i>Manet: Histoire Catalographique</i> (Paris 1931), No.412, pp.438-9 (dated 1882-3); Paul Jamot, Georges Wildenstein, Marie-Louise Bataille, <i>Manet</i> (Paris 1932), No.395, p.168, repr. fig.58 (dated 1880); Ambroise Vollard, <i>Recollections of a Picture Dealer</i> (London 1936), p.57; A. Tabarant, <i>Manet et ses Oeuvres</i> (Paris 1947), No.430, pp.459-60, 544, repr. (dated 1882-3); Phoebe Pool and Sandra Orienti, <i>The Complete Paintings of Manet (London 1970), No.409, p.120, repr. (dated 1882); Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné</i> (Lausanne-Paris 1975), Vol.1, No.337, p.260, repr. p.261 (dated 1880) 
<br/><i>Repr</i>: Douglas Cooper, Manet (London 1949), pl.XVI in colour</p>
<p>A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of the artist's wife (née Suzanne Leenhoff), and sometimes known as 'Portrait of Mme Manet'. According to her son Léon Koëlla, it was painted in the Manets' apartment in the Rue de Saint-Pétersbourg.</p>
<p>Degas recorded in the manuscript catalogue of his collection, now in the possession of Paul and Philippe Brame in Paris, that he obtained this work from Vollard in 1895 in exchange for a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pastel" title="Glossary definition for 'Pastel'"><span>pastel</span></a> ('Par Vollard, par échange de pastel | 1895').</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.475, reproduced p.475</p>

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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults animals: mammals cat domestic fine arts and music head in hand / hands interiors living room objects people picture sitting woman