Lot Essay
This painting is a study for a larger version (Lemoisne, no. 34), formerly in the collection of Georges Viau, Paris.
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Dante et Virgile à l’entrée de l’Enfer
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Dante et Virgile à l’entrée de l’Enfer
oil on paper laid down on canvas
12 5/8 x 8 ¾ in. (32 x 22.3 cm.)
Painted in 1857-1858
Dante et Virgile à l’entrée de l’Enfer
oil on paper laid down on canvas
12 5/8 x 8 ¾ in. (32 x 22.3 cm.)
Painted in 1857-1858
Provenance
Jeanne Fevre, Paris (the artist's niece); sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 12 June 1934, lot 114.
Theodore Schempp, Brodhead, Wisconsin.
St. Louis Art Museum (acquired from the above, 1934); sale, Christie’s, New York, 20 November 1986, lot 311.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Theodore Schempp, Brodhead, Wisconsin.
St. Louis Art Museum (acquired from the above, 1934); sale, Christie’s, New York, 20 November 1986, lot 311.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
M.R. Rogers, Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, vol. 19, October 1934, p. 49, no. 4.
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 14, no. 35 (illustrated, p. 15).
E. Haverkamp-Begemann, S.D. Lawder and C.W. Talbot, Jr., Drawings from the Clark Institute, exh. cat., Clark Institute, Williamstown, 1964, vol. I, p. 75 (illustrated, fig. 55).
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 14, no. 35 (illustrated, p. 15).
E. Haverkamp-Begemann, S.D. Lawder and C.W. Talbot, Jr., Drawings from the Clark Institute, exh. cat., Clark Institute, Williamstown, 1964, vol. I, p. 75 (illustrated, fig. 55).
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