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Edgar Degas: Portrait of Estelle Balfour   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Edgar Degas  (1834–1917)  wikidata:Q46373 s:fr:Auteur:Edgar Degas q:en:Edgar Degas
 
Edgar Degas
Alternative names
Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas
Description French painter, sculptor, poet, printmaker, photographer and drawer
Date of birth/death 19 July 1834 Edit this at Wikidata 27 September 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q46373
Title
Portrait of Estelle Balfour
Description
English: Estelle Musson Balfour (1843-1909), the artist's cousin from New Orleans, visited France in 1863-65. She was in mourning for her husband, who had been killed at the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, while fighting on the side of the Confederacy in the Civil War. At the time that this portrait was painted, Mrs. Balfour was going blind. Degas, too, would eventually lose his sight, and this painting explores the experience of seeing those who cannot see.
Date between 1863 and 1865
date QS:P571,+1863-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1863-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas mounted on panel
Dimensions height: 26.9 cm (10.5 in); width: 21.9 cm (8.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,26.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,21.91U174728
; Framed height: 42.5 cm (16.7 in); width: 38.1 cm (15 in); depth: 4.4 cm (1.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,42.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,38.1U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,4.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.179
Place of creation France
Object history
  • Mary Cassatt, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 7, 1903, by purchase [together with Monet's Springtime, G. A. Lucas account Book, ms.]
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Works by Edgar Degas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. 1947. From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1951. Degas. Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio. 1955. An Exhibition of Works by Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, 1934-1917. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. 1958. Degas. Wildenstein & Company, New York. 1960. Manet, Degas, Morisot and Cassatt. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1962. A Baltimorean in Paris: George A. Lucas, 1860-1909. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979. Before Monet: Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters: Highlights from The Walters Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998. Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America. Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans. 1999. Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. 1999-2000. A Magnificent Age: Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002-2004.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1903
Inscriptions [Signature] In light brown at lower right: Degas
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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