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Edgar Degas

Ludovic Halévy

1879

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Edgar Degas

Ludovic Halévy

1879

Physical Qualities Charcoal and black chalk, Sheet: 324 × 269 mm. (12 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection
Object Number 1967.14
Two full-length figures of men in coat, hat and carrying a cane, proper left hand in pants pocket, both in the same position, viewed from behind. The figure to the right is rendered more faintly and is smaller than the one on the left, which is heavily outlined and more 'finished'
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1967; R. H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY
Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe
Kenneth E. Silver, 'The Other Fin de Siècle', Art in America, December 1987, ill. p. 107.
Earl G. Mueller, The Art of the Print, Dubuque, Iowa, 1969, p. 108, fig. 80.
BMA News, 30:1-2 (1968), p. 33, not reproduced.
'Accessions of American and Canadian Museums', Art Quarterly, Spring 1967, ill. p. 172.

Inscribed: RECTO: LR stamp in blue-black ink, 'Degas'; studio stamp in red ink, 'Atelier Ed. Degas' (Lugt 658); in graphite, 'TG'. VERSO: UC, in graphite, 'non'.

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Edgar Degas

1833–1916

French, 1834-1917
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