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René de Gas

French

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Edgar Degas, Studies of Feet [verso], 1855, graphite on laid paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.32.b

Studies of Feet [verso]

Edgar Degas · 1855 · graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.32.b

Edgar Degas, René de Gas [recto], 1855, graphite on laid paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.32.a

René de Gas [recto]

Edgar Degas · 1855 · graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.32.a

Edgar Degas, Head of the Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey"), c. 1866, black chalk heightened with white on brown paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.7

Head of the Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")

Edgar Degas · c. 1866 · black chalk heightened with white on brown paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.7

Edgar Degas, Laundress Carrying Linen, c. 1885/1895, charcoal counterproof on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.24

Laundress Carrying Linen

Edgar Degas · c. 1885/1895 · charcoal counterproof on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.217.24

Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman in a voluminous rust-orange dress stands facing us in this vertical portrait painting. She looks toward us but slightly down with dark brown eyes under curved brows. She has a wide face, rounded cheeks, a broad nose, and closed, coral-pink lips over a deeply dimpled chin. Her chestnut-brown hair is pulled up and back. The orange dress has a band of charcoal gray across the shoulders and at the flaring cuffs. Wide, vertical pleats fall from under the band across her chest. White trim, perhaps lace or fur, is suggested by loosely painted cream white at the high neck. The poofy sleeves and cinched cuffs of her white shirt extend beyond the dress sleeves. Her right arm, to our left, hangs by her side and the other holds an indistinct, loosely painted light-colored object down in front of her. She seems to be in a corner with the wall behind thinly washed in muted brown and green and a sienna-brown wood panel wall to our right.
Edgar Degas, Girl in Red, c. 1866, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.17

Girl in Red

Edgar Degas · c. 1866 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.17

Edgar Degas, René de Gas, 1855, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.8

René de Gas

Edgar Degas · 1855 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1995.47.8

Edgar Degas, Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey"), c. 1866, black chalk and pastel on brown wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.11

Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")

Edgar Degas · c. 1866 · black chalk and pastel on brown wove paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.11

Shown from the knees up, a young man with pale, peachy skin, wearing a black uniform and cap, leans against the back of a chair in this vertical portrait painting. He looks at us with pale blue eyes under sloping brows. He has an oval face, a rounded nose, and the corners of his closed mouth turn slightly down. His cap has a narrow, rounded, shiny black brim, a gold band around the crown, and a gold embellishment at the front center. The white collar of his shirt is visible along the neckline of his vest, which fastens with two lines of gold-colored buttons. His black jacket, also lined with gold buttons, hangs open. Braided gold ropes are looped under his arm from his right shoulder, to our left. More gold ropes hang down almost to his waist from that shoulder. He has a sky-blue and gold striped belt with a gold medallion at the front center over his vest. Gold bands encircle the wrists of both jacket sleeves, and his trousers are black. His right hand, to our left, rests against the back of the chair, with his palm facing away, and he leans that hip against those fingers. The chair has a coffee-brown back. He rests his other hand by his side, possibly on the hilt of a dagger or sword hanging from his far hip. The wall behind him is rust red.
Edgar Degas, Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet, 1856/1857, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.123

Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet

Edgar Degas · 1856/1857 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.123

Edgar Degas, Self-Portrait, c. 1855, red chalk on laid paper, Woodner Collection, 1991.182.23

Self-Portrait

Edgar Degas · c. 1855 · red chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.182.23