id: 120492 accession number: 1941.316 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.316 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:45.619000 Nude Man Standing, with Left Hand Raised, c. 1900. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Charcoal; sheet: 44.9 x 28.5 cm (17 11/16 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph M. Coe, twenty-fifth anniversary gift 1941.316 title: Nude Man Standing, with Left Hand Raised title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1900 creation date earliest: 1895 creation date latest: 1905 current location: creditline: Gift of Ralph M. Coe, twenty-fifth anniversary gift copyright: --- culture: France, late 19th-early 20th Century technique: charcoal department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) - artist Son of a Parisian banker, Edgar Degas enrolled in law school in 1853 following his father's wishes. But he had already shown an interest in art and had also registered to copy at the Louvre. In 1855 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts and became a student of Louis Lamothe (1822-1869), a former pupil of Ingres (q.v.). One year later Degas made the traditional journey to Italy, remaining there for three years. He visited family members in Naples and Florence and attended life classes at the Villa Medici in Rome. A visit to Normandy in 1861 may have introduced him to the racetrack. In Paris he continued to study at the Louvre, where he met Manet (q.v.) in 1862. Apart from his continuous interest in portraiture and history painting, Degas began to pay attention to subjects of modern life. Between 1865 and 1870, he exhibited at the Salon. At the time of the Franco-Prussian War, he enlisted in the artillery, but because of his poor eyesight he served (with Manet) in the infantry. After the war he traveled first to London and, in 1872-73, visited his uncle and brothers who had a cotton business in New Orleans. Degas participated in the first impressionist exhibition of 1874. He continued to exhibit with these artists until 1886 but never completely considered himself a member of the group, preferring to call himself a realist or naturalist. While many of the impressionists painted en plein air, Degas worked with models in his studio and, later in his career, from his imagination. In addition to painting, he experimented often with monotypes, engraving, pastels, sculpture, and photography. He traveled extensively-London, Naples, Spain, Morocco, and Switzerland-but continued to draw his subject matter from modern-day Paris. Other recurring themes would be the female nude and the ballet dancer. After the impressionist exhibition of 1886, Degas no longer participated in group shows. Instead he sold his works to private dealers such as Durand-Ruel and Ambroise Vollard. In the 1890s he began his own art collection, which, besides many works on paper, included paintings by such artists as Ingres, Cézanne (q.v.), Delacroix (q.v.), Gauguin (q.v.), and van Gogh (q.v.). His own art at the time became characterized by broader strokes of paint, charcoal, and pastel and the use of more vibrant colors, partly because of problems with his vision. His failing eyesight and poor health caused him to abandon his pursuit of art during the last years of his life. --- measurements: Sheet: 44.9 x 28.5 cm (17 11/16 x 11 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) modern laid paper, discolored to dark beige watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: VERSO, upper right, in blue crayon: 1858 [underlined] / Ph 1863 [underlined twice] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections opening date: 1942-01-06T05:00:00 French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942). title: Works of Edgar Degas opening date: 1947-02-05T05:00:00 Works of Edgar Degas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 5-March 9, 1947). title: The Impressionist Aesthetic opening date: 1982-08-10T04:00:00 The Impressionist Aesthetic. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-October 31, 1982). title: Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00 Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, French Drawings from the Collection (Dec. 13, 1994-Mar. 12, 1995).', 'opening_date': '1994-12-13T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, The Impressionist Aesthetic (Aug. 10-Oct. 31, 1982).', 'opening_date': '1982-08-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Gallery J--Drawings" (July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976?) (is among a list of drawings in Gallery J, this list being found at the end of a list of prints that were in other galleries from July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976 for a little show called "The Vocabulary of Prints"--see exhs. file).', 'opening_date': '1975-07-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; re-opened Mar. 16, 1971).', 'opening_date': '1970-12-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "French Drawings from the Collection, Gallery XVI" (Apr. 30-June 16, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-04-30T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "French Drawings from the Collection, Gallery VIII" (Nov. 22, 1953-Apr. 25, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1953-11-22T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings, Gallery XVI" (May 6-June 14, 1953).', 'opening_date': '1953-05-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "French Drawings from the Collection, Gallery VIII" (Jan. 14-Mar. 4, 1953).', 'opening_date': '1953-01-14T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "hung Gallery VIII" (Jan. 5, 1949).', 'opening_date': '1949-01-05T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection, Gallery VIII" (July 3-Nov. 7, 1948).', 'opening_date': '1948-07-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Works by Edgar Degas (Feb. 5-Mar. 9, 1947), no. 73, pl. LVI.', 'opening_date': '1947-02-05T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Work by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (June 15-Oct. 6, 1946).', 'opening_date': '1946-06-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections (among CMA drawings supplementing this show) (Jan. 6-Feb. 15, 1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-01-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Silver Jubilee Exhibition: Prints and Drawings (July 26-Oct. 26, 1941).', 'opening_date': '1941-07-26T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE estate of the artist (Lugt 658, lower left, in red ink and Lugt 657, verso, upper right, in red ink). [Galerie Georg Petit, Paris, 2-4 July 1919, cat. no. 182b] (photocopy in departmental file) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Francis, Henry S. "Drawings by Degas." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 10 (December 1957): 212-217. page number: Mentioned: p. 216-7; Reproduced: p. 214 url: Munro, Jane. "The Nude." In Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Jane Munro, Richard Kendall, Timothy J. Standring, Jill DeVonyar, Victoria Avery, Jo Dillon, and Anna Gruetzner, 78-115. Robins New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 85, fig. 76. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.316/1941.316_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.316/1941.316_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.316/1941.316_full.tif