Art Institute of Chicago
Self-Portrait
Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-bf4856169bdb
- Date
- 1857
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 13551
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
A work of surprising sophistication for a relatively young practitioner of the art, this etching was clearly inspired by the early graphic self-portraits of Rembrandt. Degas gleaned from the Baroque master his capacity to create an atmosphere from which a convincing presence emerges. This probing self-appraisal was made when the artist was only twenty-three years old. The maturity of Degas’s gaze is matched by the sophistication of his technique. He has printed this etching with a personalized, rich wiping of the plate that anticipates his later work in monotypes.
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- Credit line
- The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
- Provenance
- Alexis Hubert Rouart (1839-1911), Paris [his stamp, recto, Lugt suppl. 2187a]. Roger Marx (1859-1913), Paris; sold, Paris, April 26-May 2, 1914. Sold by Marcel Guiot, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1932.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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