About This Artwork

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Self-Portrait, 1857

Etching on ivory laid paper
232 x 143 mm (image/plate, max.); 324 x 233 mm (sheet)
Joseph Brooks Fair Collection, 1932.1294

Reed & Shapiro 8a III/IV; Adhémar & Cachin 13 III/V; Delteil 1 III/V

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, An Exhibition of Etchings by Edgar Degas, May 4-July 12, 1964, n.p., cat. 9 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 25-26, cat. 5 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 7, 1987-May 19, 1991 (Allerton gallery 202A).

Publication History

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré 9 (Paris, 1919), n.p., no. 1 III/V.

P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre I (Paris, 1946), p. 18.

Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas (Berkeley, 1962), pp. 10-11, pl. 16.

Paul Moses, An Exhibition of Etchings by Edgar Degas (Chicago, 1964), no. 9.

Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin, Edgar Degas: gravures et monotypes (Paris, 1973), pp. XL-XLI, no. 13 III/V.

Roger Passzion, Impressionist Prints (New York, 1974), p. 62.

Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker (Boston, 1984), pp. 23-25, no. 8a III/IV.

Michio Shiraishi, Kazouo Uemura, Kouji Takada, Practice of Painting (Maruzen Company Ltd, 2002).

Ownership History

Alexis Hubert Rouart (1839-1911), Paris [his stamp, recto, Lugt suppl. 2187a]. Roger Marx (1859-1913), Paris; sold, Paris, April 26-May 2, 1914. Sold by Marcel Guiot, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1932.