Portraits at the Stock Exchange. #10
by Edgar Degas
Title
Portraits at the Stock Exchange. #10
Artist
Edgar Degas
Medium
Painting - Canvas
Description
Portraits at the Stock Exchange. Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834-1917 Paris). Dimensions: 28 3/8 x 22 7/8 in. (72.1 x 58.1 cm). Date: ca. 1878-79.
This study for an oil painting by Degas of 1878-79 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) depicts the financier and collector Ernest May (1845-1925) under the portico of the Paris stock exchange. At the time, May was in his early thirties and just beginning to expand his acquisitions from old master and eighteenth-century pictures to works by Degas, Manet, and their colleagues. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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June 21st, 2019
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