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Le Dandy des Batignolles

Inscribed ATELIER ED. DEGAS. George Moore with full beard, full-length youthful figure in evening dress, holding a hat in his left hand, his right hand tucked into his waistcoat. A larger second head is sketched upper right.

Mary Cassatt’s “Armchair Critic (2)” is likewise inscribed and depicts a similar figure at around the same time.

According to Jacques Blanche, one of Moore’s nicknames in the 1870s was “Le Dandy des Batignolles”; Degas lived in the Batignolles neighborhood of Paris at the time; several avant-garde artists including Degas were known as Le groupe des Batignolles.

This sketch was carefully attributed to Edgar Degas by art historian Ronald Pickvance; later it was judged a forgery by another art historian Theodore Reff. The owner of the picture believes Reff.

Published in Burlington Magazine (London: Vol. 105, No. 723, June 1963. Owned by the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford University, England.