Edgar Degas
The Collector of Prints
186653 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
Other works by Edgar Degas
Self-portrait
c. 1854
c. 1854
Horses and Riders on a Road
1867-68
1867-68
Promenade beside the sea
c. 1860
c. 1860
Achille De Gas
c. 1872-73
c. 1872-73
Dancer
c. 1895-98
c. 1895-98