The Engraver Joseph Tourny (Le graveur Joseph Tourny)

1857 (first printing)

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23 × 14.5 cm (9 1/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 39 × 27.3 cm (15 3/8 × 10 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.108

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 5, State only (first of six printings)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Atelier Ed. Degas (Lugt 657). Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 82)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • Etchings and Other Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, 1952-1953, no cat.

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

1984

  • Reed, Sue Welsh, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984: no. 5, State only (first of six printings)

Inscriptions

recto: at bottom, in graphite, in later hand: IV; verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: B 2205; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: EWX

Markings

recto: none; verso: Atelier Ed. Degas (Lugt 657) and Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65071936

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