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A black and white photograph portraying a dirt road with a row of trees.

A photograph portraying a dirt road from the perspective of the bottom of a small hill, looking up at a line of trees. The line of tall, thin trees with bushy foliage curve along the right side of the road against a clear sky, and gradually become smaller in the background. The road has thin lines indented into it, suggesting the road is traveled by wheeled vehicles or bicycle. There is a suggestion of grass and low-ground foliage on both corners of the photograph.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1974.5
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Untitled (The Hourdel Road, near Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
Probably September 1895
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/284926

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print, enlarged and printed by Delphine or Guillaume Tasset
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 27.8 x 37.8 cm (10 15/16 x 14 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas. found in Degas studio after his death
Marcel Guèrin.
Harvard University Fine Arts Library, Cambridge, MA, gift of Paul Sachs, transfer, 1974. Transferred to Photograph Collection, Fogg Art Museum

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs, Transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
Accession Year
1974
Object Number
P1974.5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), 297
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Malcolm R. Daniel, Edgar Degas, Photographer, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1998), Plate 2, cat. no. 35
  • Cate McQuaid, "Degas, Intimately", The Boston Globe (August 12, 2005), Weekend section, repr.
  • Christopher Reed, "Mad for Degas", Harvard Magazine (July 2005 - August 2005), vol. 107, no. 6, pp. 40-45, p. 44, ill.
  • Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes (London, 2006), p. 55, fig. 57
  • Bertrand Tillier, Le mystère de la chambre noire, Télérama hors série, pp. 66-73, March 2012, p. 70, reproduced

Exhibition History

  • Chasing Shadows, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/1995 - 04/02/1995
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Reproduction/Production, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/29/2005 - 04/10/2005
  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/20/2008 - 02/08/2009
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2009 - 01/17/2010
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/02/2018 - 02/19/2018

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