This exploratory sketch fumbles with the sitter's arms and overcoat, but the head appears strong and sure; Manet's hair has been tousled by the removal of his hat. The full-bearded profile served as practice for the striking bust-length portrait Degas etched not long afterward.
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Title:Édouard Manet, Seated, Right Profile
Artist:Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
Sitter:Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)
Date:ca. 1868
Medium:Black chalk on faded pink wove paper
Dimensions:Sheet: 14 1/8 x 11 in. (35.9 x 27.9cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1918
Object Number:19.51.6
Inscription: Verso: in blue pencil: Ph 776 [Durand-Ruel photo]
Marking: Stamped in red ink, lower left: mark of Degas estate sale (Lugt 658); stamped in ochre ink, lower center: mark of MMA; numbered in red ink, lower right: 19.51.6 Verso: stamped in red ink, lower right: mark of Degas atelier (Lugt 657)
Atelier Degas Lugt 657 and 658; Vendor: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris , Atelier Degas, Sale II, 1918
Phillips Memorial Gallery. "Loan Exhibition of Drawings & Pastels by Edgar Degas, 1834-1917," March 30, 1947–April 30, 1947.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Degas in the Metropolitan," February 26–September 4, 1977.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," October 1, 1997–January 11, 1998.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "Degas and America: The Early Collectors," June 16–September 9, 2001.
Paris. Musée d'Orsay. "Manet / Degas," March 28–July 23, 2023.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Manet / Degas," September 24, 2023–January 7, 2024.
Bryson Burroughs "Drawings by Degas." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 14, no. 5, New York, May 1919, p. 115.
James Bolivar Manson The Life and Work of Edgar Degas. London, 1927, p. 48.
Charles S. Moffett Degas in the Metropolitan. Ex. cat., February 26-September 4, 1977: a complete checklist of works by Degas in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1977, cat. no. 7.
Ann Dumas, Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Gary Tinterow The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, also p. 288, fig. no. 366, pp. 271,282-283,, ill.
Degas and America: The Early Collectors. Exh. cat., High Museum of Art, Atlanta, March 3-May 27, 2001, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 16-September 9, 2001. Ann Dumas, David A. Brenneman, New York, 2000, cat. no. 14, ill.
Stéphane Guégan, Isolde Pludermacher Manet/Degas. Laurence des Cars, Musée d'Orsay, Gallimard, Paris, 2023, cat. no. 152, pp. 204, 257, ill.
Stephan Wolohojian, Ashley Dunn Manet/Degas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2023, cat. no. 11, pp. 86, 292, ill.
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