A Sanguine Sheet Gains a Name: Young Manet

A drawing whose author had been unknown has now been attributed to Édouard Manet from the first years of his career. The sheet is worked in sanguine, the rust-red chalk artists have long used for studies from life. It may have been made in preparation for a canvas Manet began but never completed. For collectors in New York and beyond, a new name on a drawing like this changes how the sheet is read: it becomes a glimpse of a painter planning a picture that never reached its final form.

With reporting from Artnet News.