
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Self-Portrait
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1857
Provenance
Ownership history
- Alexis Hubert Rouart (1839-1911), Paris [his stamp, recto, Lugt suppl. 2187a]. Roger Marx (1859-1913), Paris; sold, Paris, April 26-May 2, 1914. Sold by Marcel Guiot, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1932.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, An Exhibition of Etchings by Edgar Degas, May 4-July 12, 1964, n.p., cat. 9 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 25-26, cat. 5 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, May 7, 1987-May 19, 1991 (Allerton gallery 202A).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Van Dyck, Rembrandt and the Portrait Print", March 5 - August 7, 2016, pp. 58-59, fig. 22 (ill.), cat. 126, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis and Maureen Warren.
Literature
Published references
- Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré 9 (Paris, 1919), n.p., no. 1 III/V.
- P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre I (Paris, 1946), p. 18.
- Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas (Berkeley, 1962), pp. 10-11, pl. 16.
- Paul Moses, An Exhibition of Etchings by Edgar Degas (Chicago, 1964), no. 9.
- Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin, Edgar Degas: gravures et monotypes (Paris, 1973), pp. XL-XLI, no. 13 III/V.
- Roger Passzion, Impressionist Prints (New York, 1974), p. 62.
- Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker (Boston, 1984), pp. 23-25, no. 8a III/IV.
- Michio Shiraishi, Kazouo Uemura, Kouji Takada, Practice of Painting (Maruzen Company Ltd, 2002).
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