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Edgar Degas

The Road (La route), c. 1878/1880

Not on View

Medium

monotype (black ink) on china paper

Dimensions

plate: 11.7 x 16.1 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/16 in.)

sheet: 16 x 18.4 cm (6 5/16 x 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Janis 1968, no. 266

Accession Number

1952.8.224

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

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Provenance

Estate of the artist; (sale, Vente d'estampes, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 22-23 Nov 1918, no. 309 [the reproduction is incorrectly numbered 308]; purchased from the sale by Charles Comiot [1861-1945], Paris; (Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, sale 68, 11 Jun 1952, lot 73); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkinton, PA; gift to NGA, 1952.

Associated Names

Comiot, Charles
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1924: Exposition Degas, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1924, no. 238.

1953: Monotypes by French and American Impressionists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1953.

1954: Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no cat.

1955: Monotypes, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1956: Prints by the French Impressionists from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.

1960: Loan exhibition of Degas for the benefit of the Citizen's Committee for Children of New York, Inc., Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1960, no. 100 (as Le Chemin Montant).

1963: Renoir to Picasso 1914, Lowe Art Gallery at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1963, no. 20.

1968: Degas Monotypes, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, no. 63, repro.

1994: Degas Landscapes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1994, no. 31, repro.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995, no cat.

2001: Degas and America: The Early Collectors, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2001, no.38.

2006: Edgar Degas:The Last Landscapes, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; Columbus Museum of Art, 2006-2007, no. 13.

2016: Degas: A Strange New Beauty, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2016.

2022: An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe de Nittis, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2022-2023.

Bibliography

1968: Janis, Eugenia Parry, compiler. Degas Monotypes; essay, catalogue, and checklist. Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, 1968.