Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Chronological Drawings

Self-portrait
1857

According to curators at the Metropolitan Museum where these drawings are preserved, Edgar Degas made about sixty surviving self-portraits, all of them during student days and the earliest years of his career. Shortly after leaving the Ă‰cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he drew this one, averting his face from the light.

Study for Young Spartans
1860-62

Edouard Manet at the Races
c. 1865

Jockey on Horseback
c. 1868-70

Dancer
1873

Dancer
c. 1873

Seated Dancer
1873-74

Head of Horse
1878

Dancer en pointe
1878

Bookshelves
1879

Dancer with Fan
c. 1880

Bather
c. 1883-84

Bather
c. 1883-84

Bather
c. 1895