
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004296René de Gas
by Edgar Degas
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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