2003.6: View of Mount Vesuvius

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2003.6

People

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)

Title

View of Mount Vesuvius

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1856

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/95003

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white modern laid paper

Dimensions

26.3 x 38.5 cm (10 3/8 x 15 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp: verso, lower right, red ink, stamped: Atelier stamp (Lugt 657)
• watermark: two fleurs-de-lys in a decorated circle [partially cut off]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (Lugt 657). [The Drawing Shop, New York], sold; to Curtis O. Baer (?), by 1968, New Rochelle, NY, by descent; to Dr. George Baer (his son), Stone Mountain, Georgia; to [Jill Newhouse, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund and through the generosity of the Dillon Fund, David Leventhal, Margaret Ellis, Walter and Virgilia Klein, the Bunge North America Foundation, and Morton Abromson and Joan Nissman in honor of James Cuno

Accession Year

2003

Object Number

2003.6

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• The Non-Dissenters: David through Puvis de Chavannes. A Selection of French Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels and Paintings Spanning the Nineteenth Century, auct. cat., Shepherd Gallery (New York, NY, 1968), no. 167
• Jane van Nuis Cahill, French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900, exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute (Dayton, OH, 1971), no. 53, repr.
• Peter Morrin and Eric M. Zafran, Drawings from Georgia Collections: 19th and 20th Centuries, exh. cat., High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA, 1981), cat. no. 15, repr.
• Eric M. Zafran, Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, exh. cat., High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA, 1985), cat. no. 78, repr.
• Richard Kendall, Degas Landscapes, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1993), pp. 21-22, fig. 22, checklist no. 2
• 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. 53, fig. 53, p. 26
• Renato Miracco, An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis, exh. cat., The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC, 2022), pp. 35, 229, pl. 10

Exhibition History

• The Non-Dissenters: David through Puvis de Chavannes, Shepherd Gallery, New York, 05/01/1968 - 06/30/1968
• French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, 10/28/1971 - 11/28/1971
• Drawings from Georgia Collections: 19th and 20th Centuries, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 05/14/1981 - 06/28/1981; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, 07/12/1981 - 08/23/1981
• Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 07/28/1985 - 10/06/1985; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 01/14/1986 - 05/02/1986; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 03/27/1986 - 05/11/1986; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 05/31/1986 - 08/24/1986; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 09/17/1986 - 11/02/1986; Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 11/30/1986 - 01/11/1987
• Degas Landscapes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 01/21/1994 - 04/03/1994; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 04/24/1994 - 07/03/1994
• Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005
• An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis, The Phillips Collection, Washington, 11/12/2022 - 02/12/2023

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