Degas

1875

Marcellin-Gilbert Desboutin

Artist, French, 1823 - 1902

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9 × 7.4 cm (3 9/16 × 2 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.2 × 23.3 cm (10 11/16 × 9 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.5.471

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Clement-Janin 1922, no. 61, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley [1847-1919], Paris (Lugt 421); Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 Jan 1949, lot 323); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkinton, PA; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1956

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

2022

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

Bibliography

1922

  • Clement-Janin, ----. La curieuse vie de Marcellin Desboutin, peintre, graveur, poete. Paris: H. Floury, 1922.

Inscriptions

below plate, lower right, in graphite: [artist's signature]

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65080945

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