- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- P1997.42
- People
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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
- Title
- Untitled (self-portrait in library)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- Probably autumn 1895
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, France
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/173196
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 11.9 x 16.7 cm (4 11/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
- Provenance
- Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, Massachusetts, gift from Agnes Mongan, 1997, sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.
Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, MA, from Paul Sachs?, gift to Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, , 1997.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
- Accession Year
- 1997
- Object Number
- P1997.42
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.
- Publication History
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"Paul Andre Lemoisne", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, 1977)
Antoine Terrasse, Degas et la photographie, Editions Denoël (Paris, France, 1983), 82
Eugenia Parry Janis, "Edgar Degas' Photographic Theater", Degas: Form and Space, ed. Maurice Guillaud, Centre Culturel de Marais (Paris, France, 1984), fig. 340
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / National Gallery of Canada (New York, NY and Ottawa, Canada, 1988), frontispiece
Jon Garelick, "Abstract Thoughts: The Transitional and Transcendent Art of Edgar Degas at the Sackler Museum", The Boston Phoenix (August 5 2005), p. 18, p. 18, repr.
"Degas at Harvard", Journal of the Print World (summer 2005), vol. 28, no. 3, p. 26, repr. p. 26
Holland Cotter, "Degas, Director: An Easel Becomes a Stage", The New York Times (August 5 2005), pp. B25, B27, repr. p. B27
Cate McQuaid, "Degas, Intimately", The Boston Globe (August 12, 2005), Weekend section, repr.
Jill DeVonyar and Richard Kendall, Degas and the Art of Japan, exh. cat., Reading Museum / Yale University Press (Reading, PA, 2007), p. 4, fig. 1
- Exhibition History
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Edgar Degas: the Reluctant Impressionist, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/19/1974 - 09/15/1974
Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005
- Subjects and Contexts
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Collection Highlights
Google Art Project
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