Various sketches of figures from antiquity
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On a long sheet of cream colored paper, three groups of figures are sketched in brown ink. At left are a nude woman and man seated on the ground. The woman’s elbow rests on her knee as she looks at the viewer, while the man looks away to the right. At center, a cluster of figures is drawn sideways, with heads at right and feet at left. An elderly man in robes with laurels around his head stands at center looking up, flanked by two men in robes while another man sits in front of them, holding a quill and paper. At right, tilted to the left, a reclining figure in robes holds a long trumpet and a lower right is a small study of a head.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.10
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
After Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian (Argini, Italy c. 1470 - c. 1527 Bologna, Italy ?)
Title
Studies of Figures after "Judgment of Paris" and "Parnassus" by Marcantonio Raimondi
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1853-1856
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297154

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on cream tracing paper
Dimensions
15.2 x 31.2 cm (6 x 12 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jeanne Fèvre (the artist's niece), by descent. Anonymous collection, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1956

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.10
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1961), no. 12
  • Theodore Reff, "Degas's Copies of Older Art", The Burlington Magazine (June 1963), CV, p. 241; fig. 1
  • Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, Italy, 1970), fig. 2
  • Ian Dunlop, Degas, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1979), fig. 9, p. 18
  • C. Harrison, Modern Art and Modernism: Manet to Pollock, The Open University Press (Milton Keynes, England, 1983), plate II.20
  • Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Dominique Cordellier, Raphael et l'art français, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1983), no. 62, repr.
  • Christopher Lloyd and Richard Thomson, Impressionist Drawings, exh. cat., Phaidon Press (Oxford, England, 1986), p. 9, fig. 2
  • Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann and Carolyn Logan, Creative copies: interpretative drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso, exh. cat., The Drawing Center (New York, NY, 1988), no. 60, repr.
  • Bernard Denvir, Impressionism, the Painters and the Paintings, Studio Editions (London, England, 1991), fig. 75
  • David Bomford, Art in the Making: Degas, exh. cat., National Gallery Publications/Yale University Press (London and New Haven, 2004), p. 73, repr. fig. 66 (detail)
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), cat. no. 32, fig. 61, p. 62
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 50-51, 241-242, 287, repr. p. 242 as fig. 6
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley E. Dunn, Manet/Degas, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2023), p. 291, pl. 34

Exhibition History

  • Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/24/1961 - 05/20/1961
  • Drawings by Degas, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/20/1967 - 02/26/1967; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 03/10/1967 - 04/30/1967; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 05/16/1967 - 06/25/1967
  • Creative Copies: Master Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso, Center for the Exhibition and Study of Drawing, New York, 04/09/1988 - 07/23/1988
  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005
  • Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017
  • Manet/Degas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 09/24/2023 - 01/07/2024

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