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Boussard the Photographer

Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917
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About the Artwork

Boussard the Photographer

1872-1874

Edgar Degas

1834-1917

French

Unknown

Watercolor and gouache on paper

Sheet: 11 1/2 × 7 3/4 inches (29.2 × 19.7 cm) Framed: 19 × 15 × 1 3/4 inches (48.3 × 38.1 × 4.4 cm)

Drawings

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Bequest of John S. Newberry

65.144

Copyright Not Evaluated

Markings

Signed, in red ink, lower right: Degas

Inscribed, in black ink, lower right Bounnard photographe

Provenance

René de Gas, third sale, no. 366;
Collection Lucien Guirand (Paris, France);
1927, Otto Wertheimer;
1952-1965, John S. Newberry (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Galerie Georges Petit. Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas..., Paris, 1919, third sale, no. 366.

Lemoisne, P.A. Degas et son oeuvre. Paris, 1946, vol. II, no. 677.

Reff, Theodore. "Works by Degas in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 53, 1 (1974): p. 11 (ill.).

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Edgar Degas, Boussard the Photographer, 1872-1874, watercolor and gouache on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.144.

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