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Sketches of Men in Profile
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Edgar DegasFrench Photographer · 1834–1917
All works by this person →> No art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament . . . I know nothing. > > --Edgar Germaine Hilaire Degas From a wealthy Parisian family, Degas devoted himself exclusively to painting without needing to sell a canvas. His training was conventional: he spent five years in Italy, studied the O
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- about 1877
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- Drawing
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- French
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- Drawings
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In the evening, after dinner with his friends, Edgar Degas would often pull out his sketchbook to draw. He also passed it around, allowing others to make quick caricatures on its pages. On this sheet, the composer Ernest Reyer seems to have contributed two of the three portraits. Reyer was a friend of Degas, and he appears himself in other drawings in this book. On the left is the profile of the composer Ernest Guiraud, probably by Reyer, with the word *Whist* inscribed below it. Ludovic Halévy added the inscription *E. Guiraud par [Ernest] Reyer* (E. Guiraud by Reyer). Another carefully drawn head, probably also by Reyer, occupies the center, drawn when the sheet was vertical. Underneath this figure Halévy wrote *L. Halévy/ par Reyer* . The paler sketch at the right, probably by Degas, is of an unidentified man..
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