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Caricature Sketches

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French Photographer · 1834–1917

Artist

> 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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Edgar Degas quickly sketched three rather cruel caricatures on one side of the sheet and then turned his sketchbook upside down to fill the other side of the page. At the upper right he drew a caricature of a soldier in a field marshal's uniform, sporting a pig-like snout and a walrus mustache. Below are two caricatures of a man with a narrow, waxed mustache and a goatee, perhaps the former French emperor Napoleon III or Degas's friend, the author Edmond de Goncourt. When the sheet is inverted, five more heads can be distinguished on the right. In the center of the page, the bust of a priest with long straight hair and arms folded against his chest faces left. Around the side of the sheet are four heads in profile, with either long, luxuriant hair or curling mustaches. The head in the top right corner is probably a portrait of Degas's friend, the author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who appears elsewhere in the sketchbook 1

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Artist/Maker: Edgar Degas
subject_of[Homepage].id: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108E25
Date: 1877
Culture: French
Object Type: Drawing

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Object ID: c4601e12-39ab-47b0-9424-f349b0f21bc2
Object Type: Drawing
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Creator: Edgar Degas
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Culture: French
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Department: Drawings
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Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date: 1877
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Begin Year: 1877
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End Year: 1877
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