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Edgar Degas
1834-1917
Sketchbook (notebook 8)
October 1856 and July 1857
Chiefly pencil with some stumping, and pen and brown ink, with watercolor on one leaf, on paper; bound in brown marbled boards.
Leaves: 4 9/16 x 3 7/16 inches (116 x 87 mm); binding: 4 5/8 x 3 3/8 inches (118 x 86 mm)
Purchased by The Board of Trustees of the Pierpont Morgan Library in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw.
1985.47
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Watermark: Sante Innamorati (in script); fragment of an anchor in a circle.
This sketchbook consists of 181 drawings on ninety-two leaves, recording Degas's tour of Rome between October 1856 and July 1857. It contains sketches of antique statuary, as well as copies of Renaissance and other works of art.
Inscription:
Variously inscribed.
Provenance:
Marcel Guérin, Paris; his daughter, Mme Alfred Indig; Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York.
Associated names:
Guérin, Marcel, 1873-1948, former owner.
Indig, Alfred, Mme, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 334.
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