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| Edgar Degas Portrait studies of a man ca. 1856-57 drawing Clark Art Institute |
Above, an early study by Edgar Degas drawn with a characteristic youthful meticulousness that would be surpassed and abandoned in the later work. Below, several impressions of Degas in person, recorded by fellow artists in Paris during his lifetime.
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| Maurice Denis Edgar Degas & his Model 1905 etching Clark Art Institute |
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| Georges Jeanniot Portrait of Edgar Degas ca. 1885 drawing Clark Art Institute |
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| Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas in Profile 1876 drypoint Clark Art Institute |
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| Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas au chapeau 1876 drypoint Clark Art Institute |
The Degas artifacts brought together here are from collections at the Clark Art Institute. The extraordinarily complicated image immediately below – a print of actresses in their dressing rooms, presented as a sequence of fragmented panels that simultaneously defy and represent recession in space – makes my gratitude to the Clark tangible and specific, because I had never encountered it previously anywhere else.
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| Edgar Degas Actresses in their Dressing Rooms ca. 1875 etching, aquatint Clark Art Institute |
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| Edgar Degas Leaving the Bath caa. 1879-80 etching Clark Art Institute |
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| Edgar Degas Studies of the Borghese Gladiator ca. 1853-56 drawing Clark Art Institute |
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| Edgar Degas Study of Drapery ca. 1860-65 drawing Clark Art Institute |
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| Edgar Degas Standing Nude ca. 1860-65 drawing Clark Art Institute |