Two Portrait Studies of a Man

c. 1856–57

Medium	graphite with stumping with touches of white chalk on pink wove paper
Dimensions	17 1/2 x 11 3/8 in. (44.4 x 28.9 cm)
Object Number	1955.1393
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Two Portrait Studies of a Man, c. 1856–57, graphite with stumping with touches of white chalk on pink wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1393

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. Boston (MA): Museum of Fine Arts. Edgar Degas, The Reluctant Impressionist. June 20-Sept. 1, 1974. Cat. by Barbara S. Shapiro. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Fernandez, Rafael, and Alexandra R. Murphy. Degas in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987. Grand Palais, Paris.. Degas. Feb. 9-May 16, 1988; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 16-Aug. 28, 1988; Metropolitan Museum, New York, Sept. 27, 1988-Jan. 8, 1989. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. High Museum of Art.. Degas and America: The Early Collectors. Feb. 28-May 27, 2001. Cat. by Ann Dumas and David A. Brennan.. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 16-Sept. 9, 2001.. "Exhibition of Drawings by Degas." Art News 35 (Dec. 28, 1935). Robert Kaupelis.. Learning to Draw: A Creative Approach to Expressive Drawings.. New York: Watson-Guptill.. 1983.. Gordon, Robert and Andrew Forge. Degas. New York: Abrams, 1988. Milner, Frank. Degas. London: Bison Books, 1990. Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. Anonymous. "Nineteenth-Century Painting and Sculpture." The Magazine Antiques 152 (October 1997): 522–31. Cahill, Timothy. Art in Nature: The Clark Art Institute Today and Tomorrow. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francince Clark Art Institute, 2003. DVD. 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. Cowling, Elizabeth, and Richard Kendall. Picasso Looks at Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Barcelona: Museu Picasso, 2010. Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, fourth studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2–4 July 1919 [L. 658], no. 67, ill.); [Durand-Ruel, New York, sold to Clark, 1939]; Robert Sterling Clark (1939–1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.