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    Auguste Degas
    Edgar Degas. Auguste Degas, c. 1859. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005905

    Auguste Degas

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.).

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    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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