Self-Portrait (Edgar Degas, par lui-même)

1857

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.2 x 14.4 cm (9 1/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 36.3 x 27.5 cm (14 5/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3360

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 8, State iv/iv


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Edgar Degas, Paris (Lugt 657)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1936

  • Degas, 1834-1917, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1936, no. 89.

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 118-119, repro.

1945

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 85.

1951

  • Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 54.

1955

  • Edgar Degas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1955, 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. 109.

1962

  • Paintings, drawings and graphic works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1962, no. 68, repro.

1964

  • Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 9, repro.

1965

  • Master Prints, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 1965-1966.

1966

  • Prints 1800-1945, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1966, no. 52.

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. 8, State iv/iv.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 550; fig.9.30, 551.

2018

  • Lees, Sarah, and Richard R. Brettell_Innovative Impressions: Prints by Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro_. Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 2018: 23-24, fig. 19.

Markings

recto: none; verso: Atelier Ed. Degas (Lugt 657)

Watermarks

"ARCHES" partial block lettering watermark

Wikidata ID

Q64955678


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