
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005905Auguste Degas
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "H" [?]; partially erased inscription, lower left, in graphite: "…gas…"
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 657) recto, lower left, in red]; René de Gas (1845–1926), Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Nov. 10, 1927, lot 11. Galerie Rosenberg, Paris. Wildenstein & Co., New York. John Nicholas Brown (1900–1979), Providence, R.I., by 1929-at least 1948. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 28, 1995, lot 176, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Exhibition of French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries," Mar. 6–Apr. 6, 1929, cat. 31. Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Museum of Art, "Degas, 1834–1917," 1936, cat. 7. San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Nineteenth Century French Drawings," Mar. 8-Apr. 6, 1947, p. 57, cat. 90. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Degas’ Portraits of his Family and Friends," Mar. 6–28, 1948. Rotterdam, Boymans Museum, "French Drawings in American Collections," 1958, cat. 167, pl. 160; traveled to Paris, Musée de Orangerie and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, "Forty Master Drawings from the Collection of John Nicholas Brown," June 1962, cat. 6 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Edgar Degas: The Reluctant Impressionist," June 20–Sept. 1, 1974, cat. 64. Kunsthalle Tübingen, "Edgar Degas: Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen," Jan. 14-Mar. 25, 1984, cat. 5; traveled to the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Apr. 5–May 20,1984. New York, Marc de Montebello Fine Art, "Edgar Degas Drawings," 1994, p. 8. Kunsthaus Zurich, "Degas: Portraits," Dec. 2, 1994–Mar. 5, 1995, cat. 26; traveled to the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Mar. 18–June 18, 1995. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 105, cat. 70 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Marcel Guérin, Dix-neuf portraits de Degas par lui-même (Paris, 1931) (ill.). Agnes Mongan, “Portrait Studies by Degas in American Collections,” Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum I: 4 (May 1932), p. 63, fig. 4. Agnes Mongan, "Degas: As Seen in American Collections," Burlington Magazine 72 (June 1938), p. 295. Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas (Berkeley, Cal., 1962), p. 114. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 105, cat. 70 (ill.).
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. 1859
- Medium
- Graphite, with touches of stumping, on buff laid paper with red and brown inclusions
- Dimensions
- 33.9 × 25.9 cm (13 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.920
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