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Edgar Degas

French, 1834-1917

Degas à la redingote noire (Self-Portrait) — Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917). Self-Portrait, ca. 1854-1855. Oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (41.3 x 33.7 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, 1964 (1964:13).

Degas à la redingote noire (Self-Portrait) — Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917). Self-Portrait, ca. 1854-1855. Oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (41.3 x 33.7 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, 1964 (1964:13).

Degas à la redingote noire (Self-Portrait), ca. 1854-1855

Currently on View

oil on canvas

support: 16 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (41.27 x 33.65 cm); framed: 25 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (64.77 x 57.15 x 8.57 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, 1964

1964:13

Inscriptions:

no inscriptions

Provenance:

collection of the artist, until 1917;
collection of René de Gas, Paris;
sold at auction, "Succession de M. René de Gas: Tableaux, Pastels, Dessins par Edgar Degas," Hôtel Drouot, November 10, 1927, cat. no. 66;
collection of Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1927-1928;
sold to A. Conger Goodyear, New York, October 20, 1928;
donated by Goodyear to the Albright Art Gallery, December 30, 1957;
purchased from Goodyear by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1964

Object Classifications:

Paintings

Oil painting

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