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Portrait of a seated man in profile looking at the viewer

At center a man sits with his elbows resting on a tall slanted desk, turning his head to look at us. He wears a beret on his head and an overcoat over a high collared shirt. We see his face in three quarter profile in light coming in from the left. Dark, finely crosshatched lines indicate his dark eyes, mustache and the side of his face in shadow. A tasseled curtain hangs on the wall in the background at left. In the lower margin at two small sketches of the head in profile of a man wearing a monk’s cap.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M14296
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
The Engraver Joseph Tourny
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1857
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/270222

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
25 x 14.3 cm (9 13/16 x 5 5/8 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Del. 4, R.-S. 5

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
M14296
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara S. Shapiro, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Arts Council of Great Britain, London (Boston), pp. 8-13, cat. 5, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 96, repr.
  • Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin, Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs, and Monotypes, Viking Press (New York, 1973), p. 260, cat. 7 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
  • Felix Baumann and Marianne Karabelnik, Degas: Die Portraits, exh. cat., Merrell Holberton / Kunsthaus Zurich (London, England and Zürich, Switzerland, 1994), pp. 252, 324, no. 34
  • Jodi Hauptman, Degas: A Strange New Beauty, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2016), p. 60, cat. 4 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Exhibition History

  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005

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