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Roman Centurion

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

French, 1834–1917

Roman Centurion

c. 1853–55

Medium black pencil with touches of dark brown pencil on paper
Dimensions Overall: 12 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. (30.8 x 21.6 cm)
Object Number 1955.1388
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Roman Centurion, c. 1853–55, black pencil with touches of dark brown pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1388

Select Bibliography

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. London: Art Council of Great Britain.. The Private Degas. Whitworth Gallery, University of Manchester, Jan. 17-Feb. 28, 1987; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, March 14-May 3, 1987. Cat. by Richard Thomson. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Copier Créer: De Turner à Picasso: 300 oeuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre.. April 29-July 26, 1993. John Walker.. "Degas et les maîtres anciens.". Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6, periode, 19.. (1933).. Reff, Theodore. "Degas's Copies of Older Art." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 723 (June 1936): 238–51. Vitali, Lamberto. "Three Italian Friends of Degas." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 723 (June 1963): 266–73. William Anthony.. A New Approach to Figure Drawing.. New York: Crown Publishers.. 1965.. 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.

Provenance

Atelier Degas (sale stamp, L. 658, at bottom right; atelier stamp, L. 657, on reverse; Sale IV, Paris, Georges Petit, July 2–4, 1919, no. 109ª});* Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.

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