Tag: Degas

La princesse Pauline de Metternich (c.1865)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La princesse Pauline de Metternich (Princess Pauline de Metternich) c.1865 Oil on canvas, 41 x 29 cm National Gallery, London Princess Pauline Sander (1836–1921) was the wife of Prince Richard Metternich, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at the court…

Aux Courses, Le Départ (c.1860-1862)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux Courses, Le Départ (At the Races: The Start) c.1860–1862 Oil on canvas, 33 x 47 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Degas often depicted horse racing, producing forty-five oil paintings featuring the subject. This early work, with…

La répétition (c.1873-1878)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La répétition (The Rehearsal) c.1873–1878 Oil on canvas, 47.2 x 61.5 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA This is one of Degas’s earliest paintings of dancers, a subject which he depicted in many media throughout his career. A close…

Chanteuse de Café (c.1878)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chanteuse de Café / Chanteuse au Gant (Café Singer / Singer with a Glove) c.1878 Pastel on canvas, 53.2 x 41 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Because pastel paints can fade, this extraordinary work can be exhibited only…

La chanteuse en vert (c.1884)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La chanteuse en vert (Singer in Green) c.1884 Pastel on light blue laid paper, 60.3 x 46.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A sale catalogue of 1898 evocatively described the performer pictured in this pastel: “Skinny…

Portrait d’Edmond Duranty (1879)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’Edmond Duranty (Portrait of Edmond Duranty) 1879 Gouache with pastel enlivenment on linen, 100 x 100.4 cm Burrell Collection, Glasgow See also: • Duranty, Edmond (1833-1880)

Édouard Manet

(1832–1883) The artist’s works: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s No date Manet in Art: Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) L’Atelier de la rue Condamine 1870 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Manet et son chevalet 1868–1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     Bracquemond,…

Aux courses en province (1869)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…

Chez la modiste (1881)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1881 Pastel on paper, 69.2 x 69.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a…