©Boston Museum of Fine Arts/Jiulia Knight Fox Fund

Portrait of Edmond Morbilli

[Portrait d'Edmond Morbilli]

MS : 3117
Museum
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Massachusetts - Etats-Unis
Inv. 31. 433

The Artwork

Dimensions
30.8 × 22.9 cm - 12 1/8 × 9 in.
Period
Circa 1865
Medium
Fusain
Support
Papier rose
Annotation
au verso : "Marie Louise"

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Succesion Degas - René de Gas, Paris - Vente René de Gas, Paris-Drouot, 10 novembre 1927, n° 9 - Wildenstein & Cie., New York, mai 1931 - Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1931  [Julia Knight Fox Fund].

Exhibitions

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1934, One Hundred Years of French Art, n° 152 - Philadelphie, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1936, Degas, n° 72 - Paris, Palais national des Arts, 1937, Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français, n° 76 - Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1947, Works by Degas,  n° 65 - Washington, Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1947, Loan Exhibition of Drawings and Pastels by Degas, n° 21 - Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, 1948, Degas's Portraits of his Family and Friends [Liste des oeuvres non numérotées] - Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, 1953, Five Centuries of Drawings, n° 208 - Rotterdam, Paris, New York, 1958-1959, French Drawings from American Collections. Clouet to Matisse, n° 162 - Saint-Louis, Philadelphie, Minneapolis, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 48, repr. p. 83 - Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989, Degas, n° 64, repr. p. 120 - Zurich, Tübingen, 1994-1995, Degas. Die Portraits, cat. 74, repr. p. 184 - Dumas, Breneman, Cat. exp. Atlanta, Minnepaolis, 2000-2001, Degas and America. The Early Collectors, cat. 16, repr. p. 115.

Bibliography

Philip Hendy, "Degas and the de Gas", Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, juin 1932, p. 24 - Mongan, 1932, "Portraits Studies by Degas in American collection", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum,  fig. 2, p. 64 - Boggs, Cat. exp. Saint-Louis, Philadelphie, Minneapolis, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 48, repr. p. 83 - David Ogawa, Cat. exp. Atlanta, Minneapolis, 2000-2001, Degas and America. The Early Collectors, cat. 16, repr. p. 114  - Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle, 2014-2015, Degas : Klassik und Experiment, fig.18.1, repr. 101.

Last updated : 03/02/2026