Portrait of a Man

c. 1880

Medium	reddish brown, dark brown, and white chalk on buff paper
Dimensions	Overall: 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (34.9 x 26.7 cm)
Object Number	1955.1405
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Portrait of a Man, c. 1880, reddish brown, dark brown, and white chalk on buff paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1405

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Berlin: Paul Cassirer.. Ein Jahrhundert französischer Zeichnung.. Dec. 1929-Jan. 1930.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Ten: Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Fernandez, Rafael, and Alexandra R. Murphy. Degas in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987. Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son oeuvre. Les Artistes et leurs oeuvres, études et documents. Paris: P. Brame et C. M. de Hauke, 1946.

Provenance

Atelier Degas (sale stamp, L. 658, at bottom left; atelier stamp, L. 657, on reverse; Sale III, Paris, Georges Petit, April 7–9, 1919, no. 160³ {illustrated});* Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1929; Georges Viau, Paris; Knoedler, New York (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1943). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.