A group of figures in formal wear conversing by the entrance to a corridor
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

At left a small group of men in top hats and dark suits stand conversing with two women in white tutus. At center left, one man stands in three quarter profile facing away from us, folding his hand behind his back and looking on as the women talk. Another man stands behind him also looking on, and at extreme left two other men stand facing away from us and partially blocking view of the two dancers. Extending out of view at right we see a dimly lit hallway with two brightly lit open doorways.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M14295
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Pauline and Virginie Conversing with Admirers
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: La Famille Cardinal
Original Language Title: Pauline et Virginie Cardinal bavardant avec des admirateurs
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1880 - 1883
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/269750

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Monotype
Technique
Monotype
Dimensions
plate: 21.5 x 16.1 cm (8 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 28.7 x 19.1 cm (11 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: degas
  • stamp: below plate, right edge, gray ink, relief stamp: degas

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hilarie-Germain-Edgar Degas, sold; [through Vente d'Estampes, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, part of lot no. 201, November 23, 1918]. [Lair-Dubreuil, Paris, 1928], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, New York, NY, 1928, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Adhémar and Cachin 66; Janis 218

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
M14295
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 97, repr.
  • Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin, Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs, and Monotypes, Viking Press (New York, 1973), p. 273, cat. 66, repr.
  • Philippe Lannes de Montebello and Jan Fontein, The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, exh. cat., Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1980), pp. 109-111, cat. no. 30, repr. p. 110
  • Marilyn Brown, Degas and the business of art: a cotton office in New Orleans, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, Pa, 1994), repr. as fig. 41 on pg. 132
  • Hanne Finsen and Richard Kendall, Degas Intime, exh. cat., Ordupgaard (Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994), cat. no. 29
  • Richard Kendall, Degas and the Little Dancer, exh. cat., Yale University Press/Joslyn Art Museum (New Haven, CT & London, England & Omaha, NE, 1998), pp. 21, 23, cat. no. 6
  • Pamela N. Koob, Edward Hopper's New York, exh. cat., Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery (1998), p. 13, fig. 9
  • Jill DeVonyar and Richard Kendall, Degas and the Dance, exh. cat., American Federation of Arts/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 2002), pp. 62, 65, 291; fig. 66
  • Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, February 4 2008), p. 49
  • Annette Dixon, The Dancer: Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec, exh. cat., Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, 2008), p. 45, fig. 5
  • Jodi Hauptman, Degas: A Strange New Beauty, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2016), pp. 48, 50-51, cat. no. 77, pl. 77
  • Henri Loyrette, Degas at the Opéra, exh. cat., Musée d'Orsay (Paris, 2019), p. 265, cat. no 283, repr. p. 268 as fig. 283

Exhibition History

  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Degas, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 02/09/1988 - 05/16/1988; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 06/16/1988 - 08/28/1988; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 09/27/1988 - 01/08/1989
  • Degas Monotypes, Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, 10/14/1994 - 12/31/1994
  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005
  • Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 03/22/2016 - 07/24/2016
  • Degas at the Opera, National Gallery of Art, Landover, 03/01/2020 - 10/12/2020

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