Alphonse Hirsch

1875

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

Edgar Degas

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint and aquatinted copper plate

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 11.3 × 6.1 × 0.1 cm (4 7/16 × 2 3/8 × 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1963.11.89

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 21


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gérald Cramer, Geneva; purchased 1959 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1963.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1964

  • Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 17.

2022

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

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. 21.

2022

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

Wikidata ID

Q63570889


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