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| Keywords: Edgar Degas - Portrait of Estelle Balfour - Walters 37179.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Edgar Degas en Estelle Musson Balfour 1843-1909 the artist's cousin from New Orleans visited France in 1863-65 She was in mourning for her husband who had been killed at the Battle of Corinth Mississippi while fighting on the side of the Confederacy in the Civil War At the time that this portrait was painted Mrs Balfour was going blind Degas too would eventually lose his sight and this painting explores the experience of seeing those who cannot see between 1863 1865 oil canvas panel cm 26 9 21 91 ; with frame cm 42 5 38 1 4 4 accession number 37 179 21009 Mary Cassatt Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore May 7 1903 by purchase together with Monet's Springtime G A Lucas account Book ms Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1903 In light brown lower right ~ Degas Works by Edgar Degas The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 1947 From Ingres to Gauguin French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1951 Degas Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute San Antonio 1955 An Exhibition of Works by Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas 1934-1917 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles 1958 Degas Wildenstein Company New York 1960 Manet Degas Morisot and Cassatt Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1962 A Baltimorean in Paris George A Lucas 1860-1909 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 Degas and New Orleans A French Impressionist in America Ordrupgaard Charlottenlund; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans 1999 Faces of Impressionism Portraits from American Collections Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Houston; The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 1999-2000 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 place of origin France PD-old-auto 1917 Portraits of women Portrait paintings by Edgar Degas French paintings in the Walters Art Museum People of New Orleans 1860s paintings from France | ||||
