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Portrait of René de Gas

[Portrait de René de Gas]

MS : 3273
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington - District de Columbia - Etats-Unis
Inv. 1995.47.32a

The Artwork
Dimensions
30.5 × 23.7 cm - 12 × 9 5/16 in.
Period
1855
Medium
Crayon graphite
Support
Papier brun clair
Signature
en bas à droite : Degas
Annotation
en bas à droite : à René 1855

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - René de Gas, Paris - Marcel Guérin, Paris - Richard S. Davis, Minneapolis - M. et Mme Paul Mellon, Virginie, 1963 - Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1995  [Don Mellon].

Exhibitions

Paris, musée de l’Orangerie, 1931, Degas : portraitiste, sculpteur, n° 81 - Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1948 -1949, Seventy Master Drawings, n° 64 - Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1966, French Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs Paul Mellon, n° 222 (repr.) - Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1974, Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts : Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, 48, B - Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1978, Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, p. 99 - Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1997-1998, Building a Collection, n° 135 - Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1999-2000, An Enduring Legacy : Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon - Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2000-2001, Art for the Nation : Collecting a New Century, pp. 212-213 (repr.) - Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2016, In Celebration of Paul Mellon - Paris, New York, 2023-2024, Manet Degas [Non reproduit au catalogue].

Bibliography

Marcel Guérin, "Remarques sur des Portraits de famille peints pat Degas", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, juin 1928, pp. 37, 371-372 - Nirdlinger Virginia, "Some Family Portraits by Degas", Parnasse, mars 1932, p. 13 - Rebatet, Degas, 1944, pl. 4 - Brame, Reff, 1984, Degas, n° 6 (repr.) - Rewald John, "Degas and His Family in New Orleans", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, août 1946, p. 146, fig. 9 - Boggs, Portraits by Degas, 1962, p. 8, pl. 8 - Cat. exp. Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, 1970, 19th & 20th Century Paintings from the Collection of the Smith College Museum of Art, p. 19 - Walker John, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984, p. 680, n° 1094 (repr.) - Boggs, Cat. exp. Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989, Degas, fig. 28, repr. p. 62 - Washington, National Gallery of Art Bulletin, 1996.

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