Artist:
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Edgar Degas
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Title:
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Portrait of Paul Valpinçon (d. 1894)
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Date:
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c. 1855
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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15 7/8 x 12 3/4 in. (40.32 x 32.39 cm) (canvas)
24 x 20 3/8 x 3 1/8 in. (60.96 x 51.75 x 7.94 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of David M. Daniels in memory of Frances H. Daniels
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Location:
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Gallery 355
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Edgar Degas and Paul Valpinçon had a lifelong friendship that began even before the two became classmates in 1846. In fact, their fathers were friends. Paulâs father, Edouard Valpinçon, played a role in Degasâs artistic development by encouraging the young artistâs interest in the French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Degasâs admiration of Ingres is apparent in the crisp, classicizing manner with which he captured his friendâs likeness in this portrait.
Many years later, Paulâs daughter, Hortense, recounted the family history of the portraitâs creation. She said it was painted in the courtyard of her grandfatherâs Paris home when her father was only twenty-one years oldâan age that corresponds with the date of 1855 inscribed, in an unknown hand, on the paintingâs reverse.
The portrait remained with Hortense until the 1930s. Eventually it came into the collection of David M. Daniels, a native of St. Paul, who donated it to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1974.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Degas, Edgar
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1834-1917
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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no markings on verso:
UL stretcher: [Degas/Lemoisne no. 99/ 2144]; [J149]; [Degas 98]
UC stretcher:
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, , ,
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Accession #:
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74.28
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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