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Apotheosis de Degas (After Ingres' L'apotheose d'Homere)

Date

1885

Medium

Albumen silver print

Culture

French

Department

Photographs

Institution

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One of Edgar Degas's earliest documented involvements with photography occurred in 1885, when he directed the creation of a parody of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's grand history painting, *The Apotheosis of Homer,* now in the Louvre Museum. A local photographer, Walter Barnes, made the negative and print, surely following Degas's explicit instructions. Entitled the *Apotheosis of Degas,* it is very much an aggrandized self-portrait of Degas.

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