Cleveland Museum of Art
Diego Martelli
Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-568c79847d76
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- charcoal and white chalk
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 130528
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This sheet is one of many studies that Degas made in 1879 of his friend and supporter, the Italian art critic and patron Diego Martelli (1839-1896). Martelli was one of the most important champions of progressive modern art in Italy, and his writings on the 1879 Impressionist show became famous, playing a crucial role in publicizing the movement. This sheet relates to two painted portraits of the critic, one in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, and the other in the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires. The ghostly white tone of Diego Martelli's face was likely pink or peach when Degas made the work, and has gradually faded over time.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- 1879-1919: Estate of Edgar Degas [1834-1917], Paris | 1919: (Galerie Georges Petit, third Degas sale, Paris, April 8-9, 1919, no. 160.1, probably sold to Georges Viau) | probably 1919-?: Georges Viau [1855-1939], Paris | ?-?: Mme. Demotte, Paris | ?-?: B. Natanson, Paris | by 1950-1953: (Victor D. Spark, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | 1953-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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