Figure Offering Frankincense: Bas-relief from the Palace, Thebes (tracing of an engraving)
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, French, 1834 - 1917
1853-1861
Graphite on tracing paper
Sheet: 3 1/4 × 3 7/8 in. (8.3 × 9.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, through Friends of the Dartmouth Library
D.963.163.3
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Exhibition History
Drawings at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 27-November 27, 1988.
Reflections of the Original, Copies in the Dartmouth College Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 24-July 4, 1978.
Publication History
Arthur R. Blumenthal, [et al.], Reflections of the Original: Copies in the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, pp.33-43.
Theodore Reff, "Addenda on Degas's Copies", Burlington Magazine, June 1965, Vol. I, No. 747, pp. 320-323.
Provenance
Collection of the artist's Atelier, Paris, about 1853-1861; collection of A. Martinez (a direct descendent of Degas), Paris, September 3, 1960; sold to Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York, date unknown; given to present collection, 1963.
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