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Studies of Figures after "Judgment of Paris" and "Parnassus" by Marcantonio Raimondi

Edgar Degas French
after Marcantonio Raimondi Italian

ca. 1853–56

Not on view

Degas first registered to visit the print room of the National Library in Paris in 1853. There, he likely made this sheet of tracings from Raimondi’s engravings of frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. With pen and ink, Degas carefully copied the graphic syntax of the engraved lines but reoriented the figure groups in a way that evokes a more spontaneous sheet of sketches. Manet later took a more radical departure from the same source when he adapted the river gods of the Judgment of Paris (at left here) in his Déjeuner sur l’herbe, as seen in the version hanging nearby.

Studies of Figures after "Judgment of Paris" and "Parnassus" by Marcantonio Raimondi, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Brown ink on cream tracing paper, French — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Studies of Figures after "Judgment of Paris" and "Parnassus" by Marcantonio Raimondi

Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)

Artist: after Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Date: ca. 1853–56

Culture: French

Medium: Brown ink on cream tracing paper

Dimensions: Sheet: 6 in. × 12 5/16 in. (15.2 × 31.2 cm)

Classification: Drawings

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift in memory of W. G. Russell Allen (1956.10)

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