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Au Café (At the cafe)

Degas, Edgar (painter)

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Title/s

Au Café

Translated title

At the cafe

Maker/s

Degas, Edgar (painter) [ULAN info: French artist, 1834-1917]

Category

painting

Name

painting

School/Style

French

Technique Description

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 65.7 cm
width: 54.6 cm

Date

circa 1875 to 1877

Provenance

bequeathed: Hindley Smith, Frank 1939 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

1st Atelier Degas sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6-8 May 1918 (71), Estimate 12,000-14,000 Francs ?; with the Independent Gallery, London (P.M. Turner); coll. Oliver F. Brown; F. Hindley Smith, 1925

Inscriptions/Marks

1. signature
   Position: lower right
   Method:
   Content: Degas
   
2. stamp
   Position: verso
   Method: rubber stamp
   Content: Jerome...... (illegible)
   

Documentation

1. (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 110]
2. (1918) Catalogue of 1st Atelier Degas sale, [page: 40]
   [comments: reproduced]
3. Manson, J.B. (1927) The Life and Work of Edgar Degas,
   [comments: pl. 46 (in colour)]
4. Goodison, J.W. (1967) [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960], London [page: 357]
   Source title: Illustrated London News (1960)
   [comments: reproduced]
5. Lemoisne, Paul André (1946-9) Degas et son oeuvre, Colmar, Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques [page: 257]
   [comments: vol. II, (1946), no. 467]
6. Winter, Carl (1958) The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey, London: Trianon Press [page: 407]
   [comments: repruduced, pl. 104 (colour)]
7. Goodison, J.W. (1967) [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960], London [page: 23]
   Source title: Illustrated London News (1960)
   [comments: reproduced]
8. Winter, Carl (1959) Treasures of Cambridge (Illustrations), London?
   [comments: pl. 44]
9. Pickvance, Ronald (1979) Degas 1879, National Gallery of Scotland [page: 29]
   [comments: cat. no. 40, reproduced (monochrome); catalogued by Ronald Pickvance; exhibition catalogue]
10. Hamilton, Alan Degas in Edinburgh, London? [page: 17]
    Source title: BP Shield International (1979)
    [comments: reproduced (colour)]
11. Bronde, Norma (1983) Edgar Degas, New York [page: 112]
12. Clayton, Hollis (1992) The Sexual Politics of Impressionist Illegibility, London? [page: 73]
    Source title: Dealing with Degas (
    [comments: fig. 14, p. 74]
13. Baumann, Felix (1994) Degas; portraits, Zürich [page: 348]
    [comments: cat. no. 130]

Accession Number

2387 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 2600; Input Date: 2000-02-29 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

Related Resources

French Impressionists - Online Exhibition

Pharos

Education Resources - Factsheets (pdf)

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