At the Cafe des Ambassadeurs (Aux Ambassadeurs)
1879/1880
Artist, French, 1834 - 1917
Edgar Degas
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, aquatint, and drypoint on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 26.4 × 29.3 cm (10 3/8 × 11 9/16 in.)
sheet: 32.1 × 49.7 cm (12 5/8 × 19 9/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1953.6.61
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Catalogue Raisonné
Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 49, State v/v
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Alexis Hubert Rouart [1839-1911], Paris (Lugt 2187a)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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. 116.
1964
Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 25, repro.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as At the Café des Ambassadeurs.
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.49, State v/v.
Markings
recto: Alexis Hubert Rouart (Lugt 2187a); verso: none
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65222734