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Portrait of the Artist
Edgar Degas French
Not on view
This is Degas’s largest and most ambitious self-portrait. Unlike Manet, who completed just two self-portraits, both toward the end of his career, Degas produced nearly twenty in his youth and later returned to the subject in photographs. Here, he pictures himself as a smartly dressed young bourgeois draftsman, with a portfolio to his side and a porte-crayon (drawing implement) in his hand.
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