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Edgar Degas: Self-Portrait
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| Title |
Self-Portrait |
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| Object type |
painting  |
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| Genre |
portrait |
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| Depicted people |
Edgar Degas |
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| Date | circa 1855-56 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on paper laid down on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 40.6 cm (15.9 in); width: 34.3 cm (13.5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
New York, NY, United States |
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| Accession number |
61.101.6 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
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| Object history | Provenance: the artist, Paris (until d. 1917); his brother, René de Gas, Paris (1917–d. 1926); his daughter, Odette de Gas and her husband, Rolland Wilhelm, called Roland Nepveu-Degas, Paris (1926–her d. 1932); Roland Nepveu-Degas, Paris (from 1932; presumably sold to Salz); [Sam Salz, New York, until 1950; sold on April 20 to Clark]; Stephen C. Clark, New York (1950–d. 1960) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
From Metmuseum.org: In the 1850s and 1860s, Degas, like most young artists, produced many self-portraits in various media, eighteen of them paintings. This one is usually assigned a date of about 1855-56, when the young artist quit his formal training at the École des Beaux-Arts and set off for an extended sojourn in Italy. Degas's mother had died when he was thirteen, and his father, an affluent banker, reluctantly supported this decision, although he was concerned for his son's future. According to Degas's niece, "With great sadness and no less nobility Degas left his father's house and went to live in an attic."Degas began making copies after the old masters at the Louvre in 1854; one of the first was of a so-called self-portrait by Raphael. Degas's self-portraits, however, more closely resemble those by Romantic artists and their seventeenth-century forebears: one of Degas's instructors in high school had been Léon Cogniet, a leading Romantic painter. |
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| Source/Photographer | metmuseum.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other versions | https://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/self_portrait_edgar_degas/objectview.aspx?OID=110000597 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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