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Summary

Edgar Degas: Portraits at the Stock Exchange

Artist



Alternative names	Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas
Description	French painter, sculptor, poet, printmaker, photographer and drawer
Date of birth/death	19 July 1834	27 September 1917
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	Paris; Belgium; Florence; London
Authority file	: Q46373 VIAF: 41863744 ISNI: 0000000121297200 ULAN: 500115194 LCCN: n79022903 NLA: 35034568 WorldCat

Title

English: Portraits at the Stock Exchange

Français : Portraits à la Bourse

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

English: This study for an oil painting (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) depicts the financier Ernest May, a collector of Degas' work, under the portico of the Paris stock exchange. May was thirty-three in 1878, when Degas began the pastel.

Date

circa 1878–79

Medium

Pastel on paper, pieced, and laid down on canvas

Dimensions

height: 72.1 cm (28.3 in); width: 58.1 cm (22.8 in)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan, New York City, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46″ N, 73° 57′ 48″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000000419368761 ULAN: 500125157 LCCN: n79129629 NLA: 36247933 WorldCat

Accession number

1991.277.1

Object history

1971: in collection of Janice H. Levin

Credit line

Gift of Janice H. Levin, 1991

Inscriptions

Inscription: Signed (lower right): Degas

References

Source/Photographer

Metropolitan Museum of Art: entry 436154

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