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L'Espada, 1862

  • Cadart, French
  • Édouard Manet, French, 1832-1883

Etching and aquatint printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 13 1/8 × 10 7/8 inches (33.3 × 27.6 cm) Sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 inches (52.1 × 35.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Endowment Fund

70.585

Signed, in plate, lower left of image: ed. Manet

Watermark: HUDELIST

Rouart Collection. 1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Fisher, Jay McKean. The Prints of Édouard Manet. Exh. cat., International Exhibitions Foundation. Washington, D.C., 1985, no. 19.

Édouard Manet, L'Espada, 1862, etching and aquatint printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Endowment Fund, 70.585.