Estate of the artist [1]
Posthumous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 4-5 February 1884, lot 51, as La modiste
Purchased by Paul Vayson, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris, by 1902 [2]
[Sold jointly to Berheim-Jeune, Paris, Durand-Ruel, Paris, and Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1910]
Sold to Oscar Schmitz (d. 1933), Dresden, 1910, still in 1932 [3]
[Wildenstein & Co., Paris by 1936 and New York, by 1937] [4]
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Vogel, New York
Sold to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1957
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972

[1] See inventory of Manet’s studio contents published in Rouart and Wildenstein 1975, p. 27, under ‘Études peintes’ (no number).
[2] Per Duret 1902, p. 263.
[3] Jamot and Wildenstein 1932, I, no. 322.
[4] Paris 1936, no. 39 and New York 1937, no. 28.

Berlin, Paul Cassirer, March 24–April 24, 1910. “Edouard Manet (Sammlung Perlin, Paris),” no. 7.

Paris, Galerie Bernheim–Jeune, June 1910. “Manet: Trente–Cinq Tableaux de la Collection Pellerin,” no. 18 (as La modiste).

Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, April–May 1914. Ausstellung französischer Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, Dresden, no. 61 (as Die Modiltin).

Dresden, June–September 1926. “Internationale Kunstausstellung Dresden,” no. 119 (as Die Modistin).

Kunsthaus Zurich, 1932. “Sammlung Oscar Schmitz,” no. 22 (as Chez la Modiste).

Kunsthaus Zürich, May 14 –August 6 1933. “Franzosische Maler des XIX. Jahrhunderts,” no. 7.

Paris, Wildenstein & Co., 1936. “La collection Oscar Schmitz: Chefs–d’oeuvre de la peinture française du XIXe siècle,” no. 39 (as La modiste).

New York, Wildenstein & Co., 1936. “The Oscar Schmitz Collection: Masterpieces of French Painting of the Nineteenth Century,” no. 39.

New York, Wildenstein & Co, March 19–April 17, 1937. “Édouard Manet, 1832–1883: A Retrospective Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the French Hospital and the Lisa Day Nursery,” no. 28 (as La Modiste / The Milliner).

New York, Wildenstein & Co., February 26–April 3, 1948. “A Loan Exhibition of Manet for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary,” no. 26 (as The Milliner).

New York, Wildenstein & Co., November 8 –December 15, 1951. “Wildenstein Jubilee Loan Exhibition 1901–1951: Masterpieces from Museums and Private Collections for the Benefit of St. Faith’s House,” no. 39 (as The Milliner).

Berkeley, CA, University of California Art Gallery, March 6–April 3, 1960. “Art from Ingres to Pollock: Painting and Sculpture since Neoclassicism,” no cat. no.

Baltimore Museum of Art, April 17–June 3, 1962. “Paintings, Drawings and Graphic Works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt,” no. 9 (as At the Milliner’s).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 3–December 11, 1966; The Art Institute of Chicago, January 13–February 19, 1967. “Édouard Manet, 1832–1883,” no. 164 (as The Milliner / La Modiste).

Omaha, Josyln Art Museum, April 10–June 1, 1969. “Mary Cassat among the Impressionists,” no. 31 (as The Milliner).

Denver Art Museum, December 26, 1978–February 18, 1979; New York, Wildenstein & Co., March 14–April 27, 1979; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, May 24–July 1, 1979. “Masterpieces in French Art,” no. 28.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, April 10–June 14, 1992; Fukuoka Art Museum, July 1–26, 1992; Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, August 8–September 13, 1992; Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art, September 23– October 25, 1992. “European Masters from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,” no. 58 (as At the Milliner’s).

Canberra, Australian National Gallery, November 14, 1992–January 31, 1993; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, February 19–May 10, 1993; Auckland City Art Museum, June 5–August 29, 1993. “Rembrandt to Renoir: European Masterpieces from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,” no. 58 (as At the Milliner’s).

Montpellier, Musée Fabre, June 9–September 9, 2007; Musée de Grenoble, October 20, 2007– January 20, 2008. “L'impressionnisme, de France et d'Amérique,” no cat. no. (as Chez la modiste).

Paris, Musée d’Orsay, April 5–July 17, 2011. “Manet, The Man who Invented Modernity,” no. 147 (as At the Milliner’s ‘La modiste’).

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 26–May 27, 2013; Art Institute of Chicago, June 25–September 29, 2013, “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity,” no. 104 (as At the Milliner’s).

Saint Louis Art Museum, February 12–May 7, 2017; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, June 24–September 24, 2017. “Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade,” no. 6 (as At the Milliner’s).

Art Institute of Chicago, May 26–September 8, 2019; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, October 8, 2019–January 12, 2020. “Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years,” no. 19 (as At the Milliner’s).

Leenhoff, Leon, Registre manuscrit / oeuvres d'Edouard Manet (peintures, pastels, dessins, et estampes) recensés dans son atelier en 1883 ou chez leur propriétaire, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, RESERVE 8–YB3–4649, pg. 18.

Lochard, Fernand, Reproduction d'œuvres d’Edouard Manet, 1883–82, 9 vols., Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie; vol. 1, 4–DC–300 (H), no. 18; vol. 5, 4–DC–300 (G, 4), no. 18.

Moreau–Nelaton, Etienne, Catalogue général (manuscrit de l'œuvre d’Edouard Manet): Peinture et Pastels, ca. 1925–26, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, 4–Z–89, no. 254.

Duret, Théodore, Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son œuvre, Paris: H. Floury, 1902, pg. 263, no. 273.

Anwand, Oskar, “Manet: Ein Maler der Vergangenheit,” Deutsche Tageszeitung, no. 161 (April 8, 1910), pg. 426.

Bie, Oscar, “Hier und dort,” Berliner Borsen–Courier, no. 139 (March 24, 1910), pg. 413

Duret, Théodore, Manet and the French Impressionists, trans. J.E. Crawford Flitch, London: Grant Richards, 1910, pgs. 253–254, no. 273.

Glaser, Curt, “Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen: Berlin,” Die Kunst fur Alle 25, no. 16 (May 15, 1910), pg. 378.

Klein, Rudolf, “Edouard Manet,” Magdeburgische Zeitung, no. 186 (April 14, 1910), pg. 436.

Pastor, Willy, “Manet,” Tägliche Rundschau, no. 72 (March 29, 1910), pg. 414.

Pietsch, L. [Ludwig], “Die Manet–Ausstellung,” Vossische Zeitung 12th supplement, no. 167 (April 10, 1910), pg. 432

Waldmann, Emil, “Edouard Manet in der Sammlung Pellerin,” Kunst und Kunstler 8, no. 8 (1910), pgs. 394, 398.

“Echos des arts: L’exode en Allemagne des maîtres de l’impressionnisme,” L’art et les Artistes 11 (April–September 1910), pg. 45.

Meier-Graefe, Julius, Edouard Manet, Munich: R. Piper, 1912, pg. 322, no. 51.

Duret, Théodore, Histoire de Edouard Manet et de son œuvre, Paris: Bernheim–Jeune, 1919, pg. 276, no. 273.

Scheffler, Karl, “Die Sammlung Oskar Schmitz in Dresden,” Kunst und Künstler 19, no. 5 (1921), repr. pg. 182, pg. 186.

Severini, Gino, Manet, avec 32 reproductions en phototypie, Rome: Éditions de Valori Plastici, 1924, plate XIV.

Dormoy, Marie, “La collection Schmitz a Dresde,” L’amour de l’art 7, no.10 (October 1926), pg. 341, repr.

Duret, Théodore, Histoire de Edouard Manet et de son œuvre, 4th ed., Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pg. 276, no. 273.

Grohmann, Will, “Die Kunst der Gegenwart auf der Internationalen Kunstausstellung Dresden, 1926,” Der Cicerone 18, no. 12 (June 1926), repr. pg. 380.

Waldmann, Emil, “La Collection Schmitz,” Documents 2, no. 6 (1930), pg. 318, repr. pg. 319.

Léger, Charles, Edouard Manet, Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès, 1931, pl. 26.

Tabarant, Adolphe, Manet: Histoire catalographique, Paris: Editions Montaigne, 1931, pgs. 400, 586, no. 356.

Jamot, Paul and Daniel Wildenstein with Marie–Louise Bataille, Manet, 2 vols., Paris: Les Beaux Arts, Edition d’Etudes et de Documents, 1932, vol. 1, pg. 160, no. 322; vol. 2, pg. 53, fig. 132.

Colin, Paul, Edouard Manet, Paris: Librairie Floury, 1932, pg. 181, pl. LXXXVI.

“Notable Works of Art Now on the Market,” Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 69, no. 405 (December 1936), pl. XI.

“Ladies by Manet,” Arts & Decoration 46, no. 2 (April 1937), repr. pg. 18.
Duret, Theodore, Manet, trans. J.E. Crawford Flitch, New York: Crown Publishers, 1937, pl. 34.

Rey, Robert, Manet, Paris: Editions Hyperion, 1938, repr. pg. 68, pg. 162.

Jedlicka, Gotthard, Edouard Manet, Erlenbach & Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1941, repr. facing pg. 384.

Tabarant, Adolphe, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris: Gallimard, 1947, pgs. 422, 544, 615, no. 394.

Arb, Renee, “Manet,” Art News 47, no. 1 (March 1948), repr. pg. 31.

“Manet a la Galerie Wildenstein,” Arts (March 19, 1948), repr. pg. 3.

Coates, Robert M., “Manet and the Impressionists,” New Yorker (March 6, 1948), pg. 56

Faison, S. Lane Jr., “Edouard Manet (1832–1883), The Milliner,” Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 15, no. 4 (August 1957): unpaginated, repr.

“Accessions of the American and Canadian Museums: January–March 1957,” The Art Quarterly 20, no. 2 (Summer 1957), pg. 206, repr. pg. 213.

Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 15, nos. 9–10 (January and February 1958), pg. 519, repr.

Gazette des Beaux–Arts 52, no. 1074–1075 (July–August 1958), pg. 5.

Handbook of the Collections, San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1960, repr. pg. 71.

Vaughan, Malcom, “The Connoisseur in America: French Impressionists in Baltimore,” The Connoisseur 151 (September 1962), repr. pg. 66.

Davenport, William, Art Treasures in the West, Menlo Park: Lane Magazine and Book Company, 1966, pg. 183, repr.

Chanson, Anne Coffin, Édouard Manet, 1832–1883, exh. cat., Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1966, pg. 161, no. 165.

Orienti, Sandra and Phoebe Pool, The Complete Paintings of Manet, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1967, no. 356, repr. pg. 116.

Venturi, Marcello and Sandra Orienti 1967, L’opera pittorica di Edouard Manet, Milan: Rizzoli, repr. pg. 116, no. 356.

Bodelsen, Merete, “Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the Light of Some Unpublished ‘Procès–Verbaux,’” The Burlington Magazine 110, no. 783 (1968), pg. 343, no. 138.

Christensen, Erwin O., A Guide to Art Museums in the United States, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1968, pg. 228, no. 468.

Hanson, Anne Coffin, “Manet’s Subject Matter and a Source of Popular Imagery,” Museum Studies (Art Institute of Chicago) 3 (1968), pgs. 68–70, repr. pg. 69, fig. 10.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor Bulletin 2, no. 1 (July and August 1968), pg. 91, repr.

Rouart, Denis and Sandro Orienti, Tout l’oeuvre peint d’Edouard Manet, Paris: Flammarion, 1970, repr. pg. 116, no. 360.

Courthion, Pierre, Manet, Paris: Nouvelles Editions, 1974, pg. 57.

Rouart, Denis, and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, Lausanne and Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1975, pg. 276, repr. pg. 277, no. 373.

Bordeaux, Jean-Luc, “Un Musée Français en Californie,”Connaissance des Arts, no. 299 (January 1977), repr. pg. 37.

Hanson, Anne Coffin, Manet and the Modern Tradition, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977, pg. 66, plate 18.

Hanson, Anne Coffin, “A Tale of Two Manets,” Art in America 67 (December 1979), pg. 67.

Stuckey, Charles F., with Naomi E. Maurer, Toulouse–Lautrec Paintings, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1979, pg. 309, fig. 1.

Baum, Hank, The San Francisco Art Review: An Art Explorer’s Guide, San Francisco: Celestial Arts/Krantz, 1981, pg. 16, repr.

Ross, Novelene, Manet’s “Bar at the Folies-Bergère”and the Myth of Popular Illustration, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1982, pg. 47.

Sutton, Denys, “Edouard Manet: The Artist as Dandy,” Apollo 118, no. 260 (October 1983), pg. 339.

Malterre, Nathalie, “Société et vie parisienne dans l'œuvre de Manet,” PhD diss., (Université de Paris–Sorbonne, Paris IV), 1988, pgs. 266–267.

Cachin, Françoise and Charles S. Moffett, Manet: 1832–1883, exh. cat., New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983, pgs. 484–486, repr. pg. 485, no. 213, entry by Françoise Cachin.

Lucie-Smith, Edward, Impressionist Women, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989, pg. 98, repr. pg. 99, pl. 85.

Cachin, Françoise, Manet, Paris: Chêne, 1990, pg. 158.

Scharlach, Bernice, Big Alma: San Francisco’s Alma Spreckels, San Francisco: Scottwall Associates, 1990, pg. 284.

Clayson, Hollis, Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991, pgs. 116, 121, 126, repr. pg. 127, 128, 150, 183nn31–32, fig. 76.

Yoshida, Hidekazu, Mane no shōzō, Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1992, pg. 45, fig. 12.

Thomson, Richard, et. al., Toulouse–Lautrec, exh. cat., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991, pg. 500, fig. 596, under no. 164, entry by Anne Roquebert.

Armstrong, Carol, “Fracturing Femininity: Manet’s Before the Mirror,” October 74 (Autumn 1995), repr. pg. 95, pg. 98.

Nash, Steven A., Lynn Federle Orr, Marion C. Stewart, eds., Masterworks of European Painting in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, pg. 129, repr., entry by Steven A. Nash.

Biedermann, Heike, “Die Sammlungen Adolf Rothermundt und Oscar Schmitz in Dresden,” in Die Moderne und ihre Sammler:Französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, eds. Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, pgs. 215–216.

Armstrong, Carol, Manet Manette, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002, pgs. 264–267, fig. 135.

Biedermann, Heike, “Einzug der Moderne: Die Sammlungen Oscar Schmitz und Adolf Rothermundt,” in Von Monet bis Mondrian: Meisterwerke der Moderne aus Dresdner Privatsammlungen der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, exh. cat., ed. Heike Biedermann, et. al., Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006, pg. 59n19.

Iskin, Ruth E., Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Paintings, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pgs. 96, 97, 241nn26–27.

Guégan, Stéphane, et. al., Manet inventeur du moderne, exh. cat. Paris: Gallimard, 2011, no. 147, repr. pg. 232, pg. 281, fig. 197.

Tétart–Vittu, Françoise, “Shops versus Department Stores,” in Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, exh. cat., Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2012, repr. pg. 216, no. 104.

Echte, Bernhard and Walter Feilchenfeldt, eds., Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1898–1901; "das Beste aus aller Welt zeigen," Wädenswil, Switzerland: Nimbus, 2011, pgs. 413, 414, repr., 426, 432, 436, 439.

Alsdorf, Bridget, “Manet’s Quarrel with Impressionism,” in Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art From the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014, pgs. 90–91, fig. 54.

Allan, Scott, Emily A. Beeny, and Gloria Groom, eds., Manet and Modern Beauty, exh. cat., Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019, repr. pg. 202, pg. 287, no. 19, entry by Scott Allan.

Groom, Gloria, “Foregrounding Manet’s Backgrounds,” in Manet and Modern Beauty, 2019, pg. 72.

Ormond, Devi and Catherine Schmidt Patterson, “The Making of a Parisienne: Manet’s Methods and Materials,” in Manet and Modern Beauty, 2019, pgs. 149, 152, 158n27, 159n47.