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Edgar Degas: Self-Portrait  wikidata:Q19912684 reasonator:Q19912684
Artist
Edgar Degas  (1834–1917)  wikidata:Q46373 s:fr:Auteur:Edgar Degas q:en:Edgar Degas
 
Edgar Degas
Alternative names
Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas
Description French painter, sculptor, poet, printmaker, photographer and drawer
Date of birth/death 19 July 1834 Edit this at Wikidata 27 September 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris; Belgium; Florence; London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q46373
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Title
Self-Portrait
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Edgar Degas Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1855
date QS:P571,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-56
Medium oil on paper
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259
laid down on canvas
Dimensions height: 40.6 cm (15.9 in); width: 34.3 cm (13.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,40.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,34.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
New York, NY, United States
Accession number
61.101.6 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history Provenance: the artist, Paris (until d. 1917); his brother, René de Gas, Paris (1917–d. 1926); his daughter, Odette de Gas and her husband, Rolland Wilhelm, called Roland Nepveu-Degas, Paris (1926–her d. 1932); Roland Nepveu-Degas, Paris (from 1932; presumably sold to Salz); [Sam Salz, New York, until 1950; sold on April 20 to Clark]; Stephen C. Clark, New York (1950–d. 1960)
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In the 1850s and 1860s, Degas, like most young artists, produced many self-portraits in various media, eighteen of them paintings. This one is usually assigned a date of about 1855-56, when the young artist quit his formal training at the École des Beaux-Arts and set off for an extended sojourn in Italy. Degas's mother had died when he was thirteen, and his father, an affluent banker, reluctantly supported this decision, although he was concerned for his son's future. According to Degas's niece, "With great sadness and no less nobility Degas left his father's house and went to live in an attic."
Degas began making copies after the old masters at the Louvre in 1854; one of the first was of a so-called self-portrait by Raphael. Degas's self-portraits, however, more closely resemble those by Romantic artists and their seventeenth-century forebears: one of Degas's instructors in high school had been Léon Cogniet, a leading Romantic painter.
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Other versions https://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/self_portrait_edgar_degas/objectview.aspx?OID=110000597


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