←Menu of Friends and Associates
Self-Portraits (1863, 1895)
Half-length turned slightly to his right, holding a glove in his right hand and material, possibly a canvas, in his left. Situated in his studio as George Moore described him in “Degas The Painter of Modern Life,” the picture shows the artist much as he looked when he met George Moore about ten years later.
Owner: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
Helf-length, head half-turned to his left. This cropped picture of Degas is around the time of Moore essay “Degas in Bond Street.” As an art critic, Moore promoted Degas and Edouard Manet as the greatest of all modern artists. See Degas’ contested picture of Moore elsewhere in this Iconography.
Other prints of this photograph are owned by the Musée d’Orsay, Paris and the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Present whereabouts of this print unknown.
Leave a comment