Victoria Dubourg
c. 1866
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Drawings
Victoria Dubourg, c. 1866. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Graphite; sheet: 30.9 x 21.9 cm (12 3/16 x 8 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1951.483 This drawing is one of several studies that Edgar Degas created for a painted portrait of the artist Victoria Dubourg, now in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art. Here, Degas concentrated on the facial expression of Dubourg, known for her still-lifes of flowers. Attempting to precisely render Dubourg's direct gaze, Degas drew her eyes in greater detail, even adding an additional sketch along the sheet's upper margin. Around the time this drawing was made, its subject, Victoria Dubourg, became engaged to the artist Henri Fantin-Latour, also a friend of Degas.
- Maker/Artist
- Degas, Edgar
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- graphite
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 30.9 x 21.9 cm (12 3/16 x 8 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: verso, upper right, in blue crayon: Ph 1756 [underlined]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1951.483
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
- Exhibitions
- The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Twenty-Five Master Drawings, Nineteenth Century: 125 Master Drawings, The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Twenty-Five Master Drawings, Drawings, Juxtapositions, The Impressionist Aesthetic, National Schools of Style, The Private Degas, Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure, French Drawings from the Collection, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>The Private Degas</em>. Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester (January 17 - February 28, 1987); Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge (March 14 - May 3, 1987)., <em>Works by Edgar Degas</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art (February 5 - March 9, 1947)., <em>French Drawings and Water Colors, Supplement to The Painting of France Since the Revolution</em>. M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (Summer 1941).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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