Sheet of Studies and Sketches
1858
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Drawings
Sheet of Studies and Sketches, 1858. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Graphite, pen and dark brown ink, and watercolor on thick ivory wove paper; sheet: 30.4 x 23.5 cm (11 15/16 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1951.430 Degas traveled to Florence, Italy, in July 1858, where he made this sheet of studies. The featured imagery is fragmented and dissociated, suggesting the young artist's engagement with art of the past. The refined female head drawn at center in graphite was copied from a drawing then attributed to Leonardo da Vinci in the Uffizi Gallery's collection. Other sketches record Degas's responses to Florentine sculpture. At upper right, he sketched an informal portrait of his cousin Giulia Bellelli, probably from life. The date Degas wrote on this drawing is incorrect; he didn't visit Florence until 1858, and must have inscribed the sheet years later.
- Maker/Artist
- Degas, Edgar
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- graphite, pen and dark brown ink, and watercolor on thick ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 30.4 x 23.5 cm (11 15/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Inscribed, lower left, in graphite: Flor. 1857; stamped, lower left, in red ink: artist’s stamp [Lugt 658]; verso, in red ink: estate stamp [Lugt 657]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1951.430
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Aspects of Drawing, Drawings, 19th and 20th Century Drawings, French Drawings, Ingres & Delacroix through Degas & Puvis de Chavannes: The Figure in French Art, 1800–1870, Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Lessons of the Academy, The Private Degas, Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988, French Drawings from the Collection, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Degas: A Passion for Perfection, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101A Prints & Drawings
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