René de Gas [recto]

1855

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 30.5 x 23.7 cm (12 x 9 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.47.32.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lemoisne 1946, undescribed

Associated Artworks

Studies of Feet [verso]

Edgar Degas

1855


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

René De Gas; Marcel Guérin, Paris; Richard S. Davis, Minneapolis, MN; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1963; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Degas: Portraitiste, Sculpteur. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1931, no. 81.

1948

  • Seventy Master Drawings. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1948-1949, no. 64.

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1966, no. 222, repro.

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints. National Gallery of Art, Washigton, DC, 1974, 48, B.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 99.

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,1997-1998, no. 135, as René de Gas.

1999

  • An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999-2000.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2000-2001, pp. 212-213. repro.

2016

  • In Celebration of Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2016.

2023

  • Manet/Degas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2023-2024.

Bibliography

1928

  • Guérin, Marcel. "Remarques sur des Portraits de Famille Peints par Degas," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 5 17 (June 1928): 37, 371-372.

1932

  • Nirdlinger, Virginia. "Some Family Portraits by Degas," Parnassus 4 (March 1932): 13.

1944

  • Rebatet, Marguerite. Degas. Paris, 1944: pl. 4.

1946

  • Lemoisne, Paul André. Degas et son oeuvre. 4 vols. Paris: Arts et metiers graphiques, 1946-1949. Vols. 2 and 3, 1946. Reprinted in 5 vols., New York and London, 1984, under no 6.

  • Rewald, John. "Degas and His Family in New Orleans." Gazette des Beaux-Arts VI ser., vol 30 (August 1946):146, fig. 9.

1962

  • Boggs, Jean Sutherland. Portraits by Degas. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962: 8, pl. 8.

1970

  • 19th and 20th Century Paintings from the Collection of the Smith College Museum of Art. Exh. cat. Northampton, 1970: 19, note.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 680, no. 1094, color repro.

  • Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son Oeuvre. 5 vols, New York (1984): 2-3.

1988

  • Boggs, Jean Sutherland. Degas. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1988: 62-63, fig. 28, under no. 2.

1996

  • NGA Circle Bulletin, 1996.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: à René / E Degas 1855.

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64556368


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