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EdgarDegas
ÉtudepourleportraitdeJamesTissot,doubleface(TwostudiesfortheportraitofJamesTissot),
c.1866–1868
Pencilonbrownishpaper,242x271mm
onrecto,lowerleft,redstamp:“Degas”[Lugt658]
onverso,pencildrawing;upperleft,whiteadhesivestrip;upperright,inscribedinpencil:“Pb1763”
[upside down], at centre right, brown stains; along right margin, adhesive residue; at lower right,
inscribedinpencil:“/DegasPortaitTissotVenteViau”;rightcorner,redovalstamp“[ATELIER]ED.
DEGAS”[Lugt657]
Provenance:
Estateoftheartist(perstamp)
Sale:VenteDegas,GalerieGeorgesPetit,Paris,1918/1919(perstamp)
(…)
GeorgesViau,Paris
Sale:VenteViau,HôtelDrouot,Paris,11December1942,lot48
Acquiredattheabovesale:HildebrandGurlitt(perprocès-verbal)
BydescenttoCorneliusGurlitt,Munich/Salzburg
From6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt
Bibliographicalreferences(selected):
Lugt,Frits.LesMarquesdeCollectionsdeDessins&d’Estampes.1sted.,Amsterdam:Vereenigde
Drukkerijen,1921;supplement,TheHague:MartinusNijhoff,1956.[no.L.657,658]
www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/6392/total/1
www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/6393/total/1(21December2015)
Tableauxmodernes(…)œuvresimportantesdeDegas(…)composantlaCollectiondeM.Georges
Viau.Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,Paris,11December1942.[lot48]
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Primarysources:
ArchivesdeParis:
Procès-verbaldevente,11December1942,no.D149E317.
BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt:
Salesledger1937–41:
Salesledger1937–?:
11December1942[no.141]
11December1942[no.1731]
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt–possiblereference:
[vol.12,fol.171]
CorneliusGurlittPapers,Salzburg:
Photographs,no.7.1_F702[11August1938]
MinistèredesAffairesétrangères,Archivesdiplomatique,Paris:
AchatsallemandsenFrance,no.209SUP/389[11December1942]
Demandesdelicencesd'exportation,nos.209SUP/869[19January1943],
1090/209SUB/196_A170[26November1951]
InventairecollectionViau,26November1951[cartonno.253,coteB75]
SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV41/003
Furthersourcesconsulted:
Vollard,Ambroise.Degas.Berlin:Cassirer,1925.
EdgarDegas.Exh.cat.,GalerieTannhauser,Munich,1927.
Lemoisne,Paul-André.Degasetsonœuvre.4vols.1sted.,Paris,PaulBrameandC.M.deHauke,
1946–1949;repr.(withsupplement),NewYork:Garland,1984.
Lemoisne,Paul-André.Degasetsonœuvre.Paris:LibrairiePlon,1954.
DrawingsbyDegas.Exh.cat.,CityArtMuseum,SaintLouis,20January–26February1967.
Kendall, Richard. Degas by himself: Drawings, Pastels, Paintings, Writings. London: Macdonald
Orbis,1976.
EdgarDegas:Pastelle,Ölskizzen,Zeichnungen.Exh.cat.,KunsthalleTübingenandNationalgalerie
Berlin,14January–20May1984.
ImpressionistDrawingsfromBritishPublicandPrivateCollections.Exh.cat.,AshmoleanMuseum
Oxford, 11 March–20 April 1986; City Art Gallery Manchester, 30 April–1 June 1986; The Burell
Collection,Glasgow7June–13July1986.
SutherlandBoggs,Jean.DegasPastels.London:Thames&Hudson,1992.
The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1
October1997–11January1998.
ThePrivateCollectionofEdgarDegas:ASummaryCatalogue.Exh.cat.,MetropolitanMuseumof
Art,NewYork,1October1997–11January1998,NewYork1997.
Lloyd,Christopher.EdgarDegas:DrawingsandPastels.London:Thames&Hudson,2014.
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CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeude
Paume
Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”
Database“EntarteteKunst”
Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”
GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs
Lootedart.com
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RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie
VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)
Note:
TheartistJamesTissot(1836–1902)wasDegas’friendandmentorinthe1860sandearly1870s.
This drawing is a compositional study for the painting Portrait of James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot,
nowattheMetropolitanMuseumofArt,NewYork(accessionno.39.161).Thestudyonverso,a
variantposewithlegsextended,isrelatedtoanotherstudyforTissot’sportrait,nowatHarvard
ArtMuseums/FoggMuseum(objectno.1930.17).
Accordingtothestampsonrectoandverso,thisdrawingbelongedtotheestateoftheartist,and
wassubsequentlysoldin1918or1919atoneofaseriesofDegas’studiosales.
ThefirstknownownerofthisworkwasthedentistGeorgesViau(1855–1940Paris),awell-known
collectorandpatronofthearts.Viaubegancollectingatabouttheturnofthecenturyandwent
ontoassembleoneofthelargestprivatecollectionsofImpressionistandPre-Impressionistartin
Paris. Sales of Viau works took place in 1907, 1909, 1925 and 1930, and posthumously in 1942,
1943and1948.
ThisworkwasacquiredbyHildebrandGurlitt,throughAndréSchoeller,atthesaleofViau’sestate
in1942forthesumof42,000francs.
ThepersonalpapersfoundinCorneliusGurlitt’sSalzburghomeincludeacollectionofabout2,400
photographs of artworks. Photograph no. 7.1_F702 is a reproduction of this work; inscribed on
verso, a certificate of authenticity by André Schoeller of Paris, 13, Rue de Téhéran, dated 1
February1943.
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