Edgar Degas

The Collector of Prints



Edgar Degas - The Collector of Prints



Edgar Degas
The Collector of Prints
1866
53 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left: Degas / 1866
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929


Literature


Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris,, 1946-48, nr. 138
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 99


Provenance


Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, New York, probably 1891–his death 1907, bought from the artist, sent to them by Durand-Ruel on 13 December 1894, probably arrived in New York on 12 February 1895)
Mrs. H.O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York, 1907–died 1929

External links


Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 29.100.44

Other works by Edgar Degas



Edgar Degas Interior of a Cotton Buyer's Office in New Orleans
Interior of a Cotton Buyer's Office in New Orleans
1873

Edgar Degas Visit to a Museum
Visit to a Museum
c. 1879-90

Edgar Degas Before the Race
Before the Race
1882-88

Edgar Degas Peasant girls bathing in the sea toward evening
Peasant girls bathing in the sea toward evening
c. 1869

Edgar Degas Rocks and trees at Bagnoles-de-l'Orne
Rocks and trees at Bagnoles-de-l'Orne
c. 1867