Cleveland Museum of Art
Sheet of Studies and Sketches
Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-568c79847d76
- Date
- 1858
- Medium
- graphite, pen and dark brown ink, and watercolor on thick ivory wove paper
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 128808
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Degas traveled to Florence, Italy, in July 1858, where he made this sheet of studies. The featured imagery is fragmented and dissociated, suggesting the young artist's engagement with art of the past. The refined female head drawn at center in graphite was copied from a drawing then attributed to Leonardo da Vinci in the Uffizi Gallery's collection. Other sketches record Degas's responses to Florentine sculpture. At upper right, he sketched an informal portrait of his cousin Giulia Bellelli, probably from life. The date Degas wrote on this drawing is incorrect; he didn't visit Florence until 1858, and must have inscribed the sheet years later.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- 1858 - 1917: Studio of the artist | 1917-1919: Estate of Edgar Degas [1834-1917], Paris | 1919: (his fourth sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, no. 74b, sold to Nunès) | 1919-?: (Galerie Nunès et Fiquet, Paris) | after 1919-by 1931: Private collection | by 1950-1951: (Victor D. Spark, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1951-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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