

Portraits at the Stock Exchange, ca. 1878–79
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Pastel on paper, pieced and laid down on canvas
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Pastel on paper, pieced and laid down on canvas
28 3/8 x 22 7/8 in. (72.1 x 58.1 cm)
Signed (lower right): Degas
Gift of Janice H. Levin, 1991 (1991.277.1)
This study for an oil painting (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) depicts the financier Ernest May, a collector of Degas's work, under the portico of the Paris stock exchange. May was thirty-three in 1878, when Degas began the pastel.







