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Landscape with mountains in the distance rising behind a row of trees

Pale shading in graphite on cream colored paper shows a distant mountain with two peaks rising at center. The very top of the peak at right is partially obscured by clouds indicated by light shading. At center in the middle ground, we see a row of trees, dwarfed in comparison by the mountain looming behind. The branches of the tree at center are rendered in tiny lines, while shading indicates only the foliage of the surrounding trees.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.6
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
View of Mount Vesuvius
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1856
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/95003

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white modern laid paper
Dimensions
26.3 x 38.5 cm (10 3/8 x 15 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: verso, lower right, red ink, stamped: Atelier stamp (Lugt 657)
  • watermark: two fleurs-de-lys in a decorated circle [partially cut off]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (Lugt 657). [The Drawing Shop, New York], sold; to Curtis O. Baer (?), by 1968, New Rochelle, NY, by descent; to Dr. George Baer (his son), Stone Mountain, Georgia; to [Jill Newhouse, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund and through the generosity of the Dillon Fund, David Leventhal, Margaret Ellis, Walter and Virgilia Klein, the Bunge North America Foundation, and Morton Abromson and Joan Nissman in honor of James Cuno
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.6
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Non-Dissenters: David through Puvis de Chavannes. A Selection of French Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels and Paintings Spanning the Nineteenth Century, auct. cat., Shepherd Gallery (New York, NY, 1968), no. 167
  • Jane van Nuis Cahill, French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900, exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute (Dayton, OH, 1971), no. 53, repr.
  • Peter Morrin and Eric M. Zafran, Drawings from Georgia Collections: 19th and 20th Centuries, exh. cat., High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA, 1981), cat. no. 15, repr.
  • Eric M. Zafran, Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, exh. cat., High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA, 1985), cat. no. 78, repr.
  • Richard Kendall, Degas Landscapes, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1993), pp. 21-22, fig. 22, checklist no. 2
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), cat. no. 53, fig. 53, p. 26
  • Renato Miracco, An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis, exh. cat., The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC, 2022), pp. 35, 229, pl. 10

Exhibition History

  • The Non-Dissenters: David through Puvis de Chavannes, Shepherd Gallery, New York, 05/01/1968 - 06/30/1968
  • French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, 10/28/1971 - 11/28/1971
  • Drawings from Georgia Collections: 19th and 20th Centuries, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 05/14/1981 - 06/28/1981; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, 07/12/1981 - 08/23/1981
  • Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 07/28/1985 - 10/06/1985; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 01/14/1986 - 05/02/1986; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 03/27/1986 - 05/11/1986; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 05/31/1986 - 08/24/1986; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 09/17/1986 - 11/02/1986; Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 11/30/1986 - 01/11/1987
  • Degas Landscapes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 01/21/1994 - 04/03/1994; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 04/24/1994 - 07/03/1994
  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005
  • An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis, The Phillips Collection, Washington, 11/12/2022 - 02/12/2023

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