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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    René de Gas
    Edgar Degas. René de Gas, c. 1855. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004296

    René de Gas

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 657) lower left in red]; by descent to the artist’s brother, René Degas (1845-1921), Paris [according to Chicago 1974]. Sold by Paul Brame, Paris, to Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1961 [letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt dated January 7, 1983 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

    Exhibition history

    Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, "Youthful Works by Great Artists," 1963, cat. 23 (ill.). New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, cat 100. Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 11. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 160-61, cat. 79 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 16-17, cat. 1, cat. by Richard Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Zurich, Switzerland, Kunsthaus Zurich, "Degas Portraits," December 2, 1994-March 5, 1995, p. 319, cat. 13 (ill.), cat. by Felix Baumann and Marianne Karabelnik, et. al.; traveled to the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany, March 18-June 18, 1995.

    Publications

    Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago (Palm Beach, 1974), no. 11. Harrold Joachim, The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings (Chicago, 1974), pp. 160, no. 79. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 35, no. 2D12. Felix Baumann and Marianne Karabelnik, eds., Degas Portraits (London, 1995), pp. 319, no. 13 (ill.). Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 10, 72 (ill.), and 107, pl. 1.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
    Date
    c. 1855
    Medium
    Black chalk heightened with traces of white chalk on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    34.6 × 28 cm (13 5/8 × 11 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
    Accession no.
    1961.792

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