Paysage
Edgar Degas (Paris 1834 - Paris 1917)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1890 - 1892
Materials
Pastel over monotype in oil colours on paper
Measurements
241 x 292 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 769729
Summary
Pastel over monotype in oil colours on paper, Paysage by Edgar Degas (Paris 1834 - Paris 1917), 1890-92, signed 'Degas' (lower centre).
Full description
Degas is well known for his studies of the human body, but he also produced challenging and varied landscapes throughout his career. Never content with capturing an ‘impression’ of a view, he always sought to add his own creativity, often combining materials and using them in unorthodox ways. This is almost certainly one of the landscape monotypes that Degas made after a visit in October 1890 to the Burgundian estate of his friend, the artist Pierre-Georges Jeanniot. Degas called these views ‘imaginary landscapes’, but they are based on the countryside he experienced in a horse-drawn carriage on that trip, sharing the same hilly features and snaking tracks. Monotypes are unique prints made by pressing paper onto a wet painting. The artist then worked over the dry print with oil pastel to create a misty, almost abstract scene glowing with colour.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (2 June 1893, stock no. 2772); transferred to Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York (1894, stock no. 1202); transferred to Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (1896, stock no. 3852); acquired from above by Hans Weidenbusch, Wiesbaden, (19 November, 1897); ?sold, consigned by above to J. M. Heberle, Cologne (Lempertz), Gemäldegalerie des Privatgelehrten Herrn Hans Weidenbusch zu Wiesbaden, 5 June 1899, no. 11 (the description of the lot matches, but the dimensions do not); purchased for 2,500 marks (La chronique des arts et de la curiosité, 26 August 1899); ?Percy Moore Turner, London; Reid & Lefèvre, London; acquired from above by Derek Hill (1916 - 2000), London, c. 1949-52; presented by Derek Hill through The National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund), 1996.
Credit line
Mottisfont Abbey,The Derek Hill Collection (presented to the National Trust through the National Art-Collections Fund in 1996)
Marks and inscriptions
Lower centre: Degas
Makers and roles
Edgar Degas (Paris 1834 - Paris 1917), artist
References
Digital Degas Catalogue Raisonné 2024, Paysage, 29 Oct. 2024 www.degascatalogueraisonne.com/catalogue/artworks/detail?title=paysage&a=1785-paysage, EDBFYZ Degas: A Strange New Beauty (Ed. David Frankel), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 26 - July 24 2016, Cat. 152, p. 201