A new Online Collections portal will launch on February 9th.
Object information on this site was last updated on January 15th, 2025 and will be static until then.
| Maker(s): | Degas, Edgar | | Culture: | French (1834 - 1917)
| | Title: | Étude pour René de Gas à L'Encrier (study for the painting René de Gas with inkwell)
| | Date Made: | ca. 1855
| | Type: | Drawing
| | Materials: | sanguine crayon and graphite on medium weight, slightly textured, cream-colored laid paper, mounted
| | Measurements: | sheet: 12 1/4 in x 9 5/16 in; 31.1 cm x 23.7 cm; image: 7 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 19.7 cm x 14 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | stamp: ATELIER/ED. DEGAS, inscription: 72 1/2 54 [illegible]/36 1/4 27 1/8 / 9 3/ [illegible and partially erased numbers to the right]
| | Accession Number: | SC 2017.32
| | Credit Line: | Purchased with the Diane Allen Nixon, class of 1957, Fund, and the Beatrice Oenslager Chace, class of 1928, Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
|
|
|
Description:
3/4 length portrait of a standing boy wearing a cap. He is turned toward the left, but looks out at the viewer. His proper right hand is hooked into the belt on his tunic. The drawing is overlaid with an 8 x 4 grid drawn in pencil
Tags:
portraits; boys Subjects:
Portraits; Boys; Crayon drawing; Graphite Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+2017.32 |
|
Research on objects in the collections, including provenance, is ongoing and may be incomplete. If you have additional information
or would like to learn more about a particular object, please email fc-museums-web@fivecolleges.edu.
|
