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Auguste Degas
Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-bf4856169bdb
- Date
- c. 1859
- Medium
- Graphite, with touches of stumping, on buff laid paper with red and brown inclusions
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 185849
Family portraits dominated Edgar Degas’s output in the 1850s. Before his departure for Italy in 1856 (and again, on his return in 1859), he depicted his brothers and sisters; during his time abroad he turned his attention to his grandfather, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Although Degas lived in the family house for the spring and summer of 1859, this is the only known formal portrait of his father from those early years. Stylistically, the work owes much to the restrained draftsmanship of Ingres, whom Degas met and admired in his student days. The use of shading, however, softens the facial features and lends a surprising sensuality.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- 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.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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