Marguerite Degas, the Artist's Sister (Reed & Shapiro 14 IIa)

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Marguerite Degas, the Artist's Sister (Reed & Shapiro 14 IIa)
heliogravure, circa 1860-62, on laid paper, a fine and strong impression of this rare print (Reed & Shapiro knew of only two impressions of this heliogravure of the second state; no impressions of this state from the original plate are known), with margins, an unobtrusive 2 mm. puncture mark to the sitter's left arm, a thin spot at the left and at the upper sheet edges, pale staining at the extreme sheet edges, generally in good condition
P. 138 x 104 mm., S. 253 x 210 mm.

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拍品專文

This tender portrait of the artist's favourite sister was etched around 1862-5, shortly before she moved with her husband M. Fèvre, an architect, to Buenos Aires. The portrait is close in spirit and style to works by Rembrandt (very much in fashion in late 19th century France), particularly to the etching Three Heads of a Woman and the silver point drawing of Saskia (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin), and also to the etched portrait of Mme Frédéric Villot by Delacroix, a print in Degas' own collection.

Degas took this subject through six often quite experimental states, pulling sometimes a unique trial proof of a state, and having the present heliogravure etched of the now unlocated second state. Reed and Shapiro record only the following number of impressions of the states: I one impression, II no impressions, IIa two impressions - H. Bérès (also with the estate stamp) and Fondation Doucet, III one impression, IV one impression, V one impression, VI two impressions.