▣ Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)

 

Self-portraiture allowed the young Degas a means to practise his craft and hone his artistic skill without the need for a model. It also offered the youthful artist a tool for exploring his identity and of scrutinising his relationship to his developing career. <Source : Christie's>



  • Autoportrait (c.1854)


[ circa 1854, Peinture à l'essence and gouache on prepared paper laid down on stretched canvas, 39.7 x 30.7 cm. <Source : Christie's> ]




  • Autoportrait, vers sa vingt-et-unième année (c.1855)


[ circa 1855, Pencil on paper, 14.1 x 11 cm. <Source : Sotheby's> ]




  • Degas à la Redingote Noire (Self-Portrait) (c.1854-55)


[ circa 1854-55, Oil on canvas, 41.27 x 33.65 cm. <Source : Buffalo AKG Art Museum> ]




  • Self Portrait (c.1854-55)


[ circa 1854-55, Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.5 cm. <Source : Musée d'Orsay> ]




  • Self-Portrait (c.1855-56)


[ circa 1855–56, Oil on paper, 40.6 x 34.3 cm. <Source : Metropolitan Museum of Art> ]



  • Autoportrait (c.1856)


[ circa 1856, Huile sur papier marouflé sur toiles, 27.7 x 20.2 cm. <Source : Christie's> ]



  • Self-Portrait in a Brown Vest (c.1856)


[ circa 1856, Oil on paper, mounted on canvas, 24 x 19 cm. <Source : Morgan Library & Museum> ]



  • Degas in a Green Jacket (c.1856)


[ circa 1856, Oil on canvas. <Source : Sotheby's> ]



  • Self-Portrait (1857)


[ 1857, Black chalk and graphite, heightened with white on heavy beige wove paper, 29.8 x 23.1 cm. <Source : Metropolitan Museum of Art> ]




  • Self-Portrait (c.1857)


[ circa 1857, Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 25 × 18 cm. <Source : Christie's> ]




  • Autoportrait au col blanc (Self-portrait with White Collar) (c.1857)


[ circa 1857, Oil on paper glued to canvas, 20.5 x 15 cm. <Source : National Gallery of Art> ]



  • Self-Portrait (c.1857-58)


[ circa 1857-1858, Oil on paper laid down on canvas, 47 x 32 cm. <Source : Christie's> ]



  • Self Portrait with Fedora (c.1857-58)


[ circa 1857-58, Oil on paper, 21 x 16.2 cm. <Source : Getty Center> ]



  • Self Portrait (c.1857-58)


[ circa 1857-58, Oil on paper, 26 x 19.1 cm. <Source : The Clark Art Institute> ]



  • Autoportrait


[ Oil on card laid down on canvas, 52 x 37.5 cm. <Source : Sotheby's> ]



  • Self-Portrait or Degas Saluant (c.1863)


[ circa 1863. Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 66.5 cm. <Source : Calouste Gulbenkian Museum> ]



  • Self-Portrait with Zoé Closier (c.1895)


[ circa 1895, Gelatin silver print, 5.8 x 8.8 cm. <Source : Metropolitan Museum of Art> ]



  • Self-Portrait in Library (Hand to Chin) (c.1895)


[ circa 1895, Gelatin silver print, 5.8 x 8.7 cm. <Source : Metropolitan Museum of Art> ]



  • Paul Poujaud, Mme. Arthur Fontaine, and Degas (1895)


[ 1895, Gelatin silver print, 29.4 x 40.5 cm. <Source : Metropolitan Museum of Art> ]




  • Self-Portrait (c.1900)



[ circa 1900, Pastel on tinted paper, mounted on canvas, 47.5 x 32.5 cm. <Source : Arp Museum> ]



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