id: 135265 accession number: 1958.28 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.28 updated: 2024-04-04 11:13:06.692000 Stefanina Primicile Carafa, Marchioness of Cicerale and Duchess of Montejasi, c. 1875. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Oil on fabric; framed: 67.6 x 58.4 x 6 cm (26 5/8 x 23 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 49 x 39.4 cm (19 5/16 x 15 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1958.28 title: Stefanina Primicile Carafa, Marchioness of Cicerale and Duchess of Montejasi title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1875 creation date earliest: 1870 creation date latest: 1880 current location: creditline: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting 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: Framed: 67.6 x 58.4 x 6 cm (26 5/8 x 23 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 49 x 39.4 cm (19 5/16 x 15 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). title: Small Paintings from Famous Collections opening date: 1981-04-04T04:00:00 Small Paintings from Famous Collections. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (April 4-June 7, 1981). title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Degas: The Portraits opening date: 1994-12-02T05:00:00 Degas: The Portraits. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (organizer) (December 2, 1994-March 3, 1995); Künsthalle Tubingen, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany (March 18-June 18, 1995). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). title: Napoli Ottocento opening date: 2024-03-26T04:00:00 Napoli Ottocento. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (organizer) (March 26-June 16, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'French Art of the Nineteenth Century, Paintings, Prints, Drawings. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA (1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Collectors' Choice; Masterpieces of French Art from New York Private Collections. Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, NY (1953).", 'opening_date': '1953-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'A Loan Exhibition of 19th and 20th Century French Paintings-Masterpieces Recalled. Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, NY (1957).', 'opening_date': '1957-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Carafa Family, Naples, Italy date: footnotes: citations: Mrs. Millicent A. Rogers [1902-1953], New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: (Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, NY, June 25, 1951, sold to Leonard C. Hanna Jr.) date: 1942-1951 footnotes: citations: Leonard C. Hanna Jr., [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1951-1958 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1958- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Collectors and Million-Dollar Taste." ARTnews 52 (March 1953): 24-25. page number: Reproduced: p. 25 url: Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Thesis M.A. Oberlin College, 1955. page number: Reproduced: v. 2, p. 72 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Reproduced: no. 9 url: "Great Show of French Masters." Life 45, no. 8 (August 25, 1958): 41-48. page number: Reproduced: p. 43 url: "Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XLVI, no. 6 (June 1959): 109-158. page number: Mentioned: p. 122 url: Boggs, Jean Sutherland. Portraits by Degas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. page number: Mentioned: p. 124 url: Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 90 url: Boggs, Jean Sutherland. "Edgar Degas and Naples." The Burlington Magazine 105 (June 1963): 273-276. page number: Reproduced: p. 275, fig. 36 url: Mastai, M. L. D. “Portraiture from Titian to Degas at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Connoisseur 154 (October 1963): 133–34. page number: Reproduced: p. 134 url: Lee, Sherman. "Style, Truth, and the Portrait." Art in America 51, no. 5 (October 1963): 28-29. page number: Reproduced: p. 28 url: "The Artist's View of Man: Portraiture Through Four Centuries." Illustrated London News 243 (October 5, 1963): 521. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 521 url: Conlan, Barnett D. "Report From Paris." Pictures on Exhibit 27, no. 2 (November 1963): 34-45. page number: Reproduced: p. 40 url: "Berichte." Pantheon 22 (1964): 55-57. page number: Reproduced: p. 56 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 172 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n196 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 172 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n196 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 213 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n233 Taft Museum. Small Paintings from Famous Collections, [Exhibition], The Taft Museum, April 4 - June 7, 1981. [Cincinnati, Ohio]: [The Museum], 1981. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 13 url: Hanson, Anne Coffin. "Edward Hopper, American Meaning and French Craft." Art Journal 41, no. 2 (1981): 142-49. page number: Mentioned: p. 149, no. 20 url: Brame, Philippe, Theodore Reff, and Paul-André Lemoisne. Degas Et Son Oeuvre A Supplement. New York: Garland, 1984. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 53 url: Boggs, Jean Sutherland. Degas: [an Exhibition Held at the] Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais, Paris, 9 February-16 May 1988, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 16 June-28 August 1988, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 September 1988-8 January 1989. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988. page number: Reproduced: p. 253, fig. 125 url: Degas, Edgar, Felix Andreas Baumann, Marianne Karabelnik, and Jean Sutherland Boggs. Degas: Portraits. London: Merrell Holberton, 1994. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 98, p. 44-45, 196, 340 url: D' Argencourt, Louise, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 212-215 url: Dwyer Modestini, Dianne, and Mario Modestini. Masterpieces: Based on a Manuscript by Mario Modestini. Fiesole (Firenze) : Cadmo, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 93; Mentioned: p. 94, p. 473 url: Degas, Edgar, Adriano Pedrosa, Fernando Oliva, and Sofia Borges. Degas: Dance, Politics and Society. 2021, 322. page number: Reproduced: p. 322, fig. 282. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.28/1958.28_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.28/1958.28_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.28/1958.28_full.tif