Portrait of Degas

Artist Jacques-Emile Blanche French, 1861–1942

Datecirca 1903

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions27 1/2 x 22 in. (69.8 x 55.9 cm)
Frame: 34 5/8 x 29 x 3 in. (87.9 x 73.7 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Museum Purchase Fund

Object number70.22.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceWith Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York; sold to NCMA, 1970. Published References"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 11, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1971), listed 70.

"NCMA Gets Portrait of Degas," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Events 13, no. 10 (August-September 1970), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w) front page.

"La Chronique des Arts," Supplement to Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1225 (1971), 102, illus.

Art Quarterly 33, no. 4 (1970), 457, illus. 463.

"Recent Accessions," Art Quarterly 34, no. 1 (1971), 125

"Symposium on 'La Belle Epoque'," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Autumn 1985), illus. (b-w) 26.

Jacques-Émile Blanche, Peintre (1861–1942) (exhibition catalogue) (Rouen: Museé des Beaux-Arts, 1997), illus. 224, fig. 16. (Catalogue only, not in show).

Maureen C. O'Brien, Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe (exhibition catalogue) (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 2005), cat. no. 2, discussed 1 and illus (color) 80 and facing 1.

Family Guide: Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 2005), illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.

Du Côté de Chez Jacques-Émile Blanche (exhibition catalogue) (Paris: Skira Flammarion for Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, 2012), 55, illus. (color).

Jane Roberts, Jacques-Émile Blanche (Montreuil: Editions Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2012), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 88, listed 192.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions and Loans,” July 16–October 1, 1972.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Turn of the Century,” July 6–November 3, 1985.

Providence, RI, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, "Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe," September 17, 2005–January 15, 2006, cat. no. 2, discussed 1 and illus. (color) 80 and facing 1.

Paris, Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, “An Imaginary Salon in 1900,” October 9, 2012–January 27, 2013, cat. p. 55, illus. (color).
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