
Cleveland Museum of Art
Victoria Dubourg
Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-568c79847d76
- Date
- c. 1866
- Medium
- graphite
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 128874
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This drawing is one of several studies that Edgar Degas created for a painted portrait of the artist Victoria Dubourg, now in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art. Here, Degas concentrated on the facial expression of Dubourg, known for her still-lifes of flowers. Attempting to precisely render Dubourg's direct gaze, Degas drew her eyes in greater detail, even adding an additional sketch along the sheet's upper margin. Around the time this drawing was made, its subject, Victoria Dubourg, became engaged to the artist Henri Fantin-Latour, also a friend of Degas.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
- Provenance
- c. 1866-1918: Estate of Edgar Degas [1834-1917], Paris | 1918: (Galerie Georges Petit, second Degas sale, Paris, December 11-13, 1918, no. 238, 2nd part) | after 1918-by 1941: Mme. Alice Weiller [1869-1943], Paris, by descent to Paul-Louis Weiller, Geneva | by 1941-before 1951: Paul-Louis Weiller [1883-1993], Geneva | by 1947-1951: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, Cleveland, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 1951-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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