Edgar Degas
Self-Portrait
1850-1860
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Edgar Degas
Self-Portrait
1850-1860
Physical Qualities
Oil paint on paper mounted on canvas, Sheet: 230 x 178 mm. (9 1/16 x 7 in.)
Credit Line
Saidie A. May Bequest Fund
Object Number
1953.205
Throughout his lifetime, Degas, like Rembrandt before him, produced a significant group of self-portraits. The dramatic shading of one side of his face focuses our attention on the artist’s eye. As we see in Odilon Redon’s drawing, The Eye (Vision), the eye is a window to the soul, a reference to the artist’s vision, and functions to symbolize a universal human creativity.
Baltimore Museum of Art by Purchase, M. Knoedler & Co., 1953; The Bomford Collection, London; Dr. Mellar, Budapest
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
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"The Saidie A. May Collection," The Baltimore Museum of Art Record 3:1 (1972), p. 54, ill. p. 54.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt," April 18-June 3, 1962, p. 53, no. 32.
"A Picture Book: 200 Objects in The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore, 1955, ill. p. 51.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Museum; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, page 186, fig. 1.
"Self-Portrait by Edgar Degas," The Baltimore Museum of Art News, 16:2 (December 1953), p. 7.
P.A. Lemoisne, "Degas et son oeuvre," Paris, Paul Brame and C.M. De Hauke with Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1946, no. 14.
