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| Keywords: Degas self-portrait c1855.png circa 1855 -56 oil paper laid down on canvas cm 40 6 34 3 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY United States accession number object history Provenance the artist Paris until d 1917 ; his brother RenĂ© de Gas Paris 1917 “d 1926 ; his daughter Odette de Gas and her husband Rolland Wilhelm called Roland Nepveu-Degas Paris 1926 “her d 1932 ; Roland Nepveu-Degas Paris from 1932; presumably sold to Salz ; Sam Salz New York until 1950; sold on April 20 to Clark; Stephen C Clark New York 1950 “d 1960 credit line From Metmuseum org In the 1850s and 1860s Degas like most young artists produced many self-portraits in various media eighteen of them paintings This one is usually assigned a date of about 1855-56 when the young artist quit his formal training at the École des Beaux-Arts and set off for an extended sojourn in Italy Degas's mother had died when he was thirteen and his father an affluent banker reluctantly supported this decision although he was concerned for his son's future According to Degas's niece With great sadness and no less nobility Degas left his father's house and went to live in an attic <br> Degas began making copies after the old masters at the Louvre in 1854; one of the first was of a so-called self-portrait by Raphael Degas's self-portraits however more closely resemble those by Romantic artists and their seventeenth-century forebears one of Degas's instructors in high school had been LĂ©on Cogniet a leading Romantic painter metmuseum org http //www metmuseum org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/self_portrait_edgar_degas/objectview aspx OID 110000597 PD-old-auto 1917 Self-portraits by Edgar Degas 1850s portrait paintings Paintings by Edgar Degas in the Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||||
