The Road (La route)

c. 1878/1880

Edgar Degas

Associated Names
Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

This print shows a landscape depicted from a slightly elevated viewpoint. A wide path or road winds into the distance in front of us. On the left, there is a group of tall trees with thick foliage. On the right, there are a few solitary trees atop a hill. Above, the off-white sky above is mostly clear, with some few patches of light gray.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    monotype on China paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.7 x 16.1 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 16 x 18.4 cm (6 5/16 x 7 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1952.8.224

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Janis 1968, no. 266

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of the artist; (sale, Vente d'estampes, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 22-23 Nov 1918, no. 309 [the reproduction is incorrectly numbered 308]; purchased from the sale by Charles Comiot [1861-1945], Paris; (Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, sale 68, 11 Jun 1952, lot 73); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkinton, PA; gift to NGA, 1952.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1924

  • Exposition Degas, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1924, no. 238.

1953

  • Monotypes by French and American Impressionists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1953.

1954

  • Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no cat.

1955

  • Monotypes, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1956

  • Prints by the French Impressionists from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, 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. 100 (as Le Chemin Montant).

1963

  • Renoir to Picasso 1914, Lowe Art Gallery at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1963, no. 20.

1968

  • Degas Monotypes, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, no. 63, repro.

1984

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.

1994

  • Degas Landscapes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1994, no. 31, repro.

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995, no cat.

2001

  • Degas and America: The Early Collectors, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2001, no.38.

2006

  • Edgar Degas:The Last Landscapes, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; Columbus Museum of Art, 2006-2007, no. 13.

2016

  • Degas: A Strange New Beauty, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2016.

2022

  • An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe de Nittis, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2022-2023: pl. 52, repro.

Bibliography

1968

  • Janis, Eugenia Parry, compiler. Degas Monotypes; essay, catalogue, and checklist. Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, 1968.

2022

  • Miracco, Renato, editor.An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis. Exh. cat. the Phillips Collection, Washington, 2022-2023: 174, pl. 52.

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: none

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65222721

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