id: 148672 accession number: 1976.130 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.130 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:39.285000 Angel Blowing a Trumpet, 1857–59. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Black chalk; sheet: 44.1 x 54 cm (17 3/8 x 21 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1976.130 title: Angel Blowing a Trumpet title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1857–59 creation date earliest: 1857 creation date latest: 1859 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: black chalk 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: 44.1 x 54 cm (17 3/8 x 21 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: gray wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: verso, lower right, in graphite: 43 53 / 93 99 [underlined] / 65 75 translation: remark: inscription: lower right, in graphite: [illegible] ppl[illegible] [sumi?] [natural?] T A translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review, 1976 opening date: 1977-02-01T05:00:00 Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977). title: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland, 1969 - 1979 opening date: 1979-09-04T04:00:00 Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland, 1969 - 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 4, 1979-January 27, 1980). title: Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988 opening date: 1991-04-02T05:00:00 Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991). 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). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). 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. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). title: Degas and Music opening date: 2009-07-12T00:00:00 Degas and Music. The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY (organizer) (July 12-October 18, 2009). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Monsieur Romanelli date: ?-1936 footnotes: citations: (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dessins, tableaux, estampes par Cézanne, Degas, Forain...tout appartenant à monsieur R., November 21, 1936, no. 8) date: 1936 footnotes: *
As Joueuse de flûte.
citations: Professor François Lyon, Lyon date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Hector Brame-Jean Lorenceau, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1976 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1976- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Letter from Philippe Brame to Louise S. Richards, September 2, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919-1969. Cleveland: The Print Club of Cleveland, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 82 url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1976." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 2 (1977): 39-78. page number: Reproduced: pp. 41, 52, 75, no. 53 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152676 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 Nathanson, Carol A., and Edward J. Olszewski. "Degas's Angel of the Apocalypse." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 8 (1980): 243-55. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 243-55 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159690 Thomson, Richard. Degas: The Nudes. London: Thames and Hudson, 1988. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 36-39, 234, fig. 34 url: Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 131 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: P. 5, 130-31, 290; Reproduced: P. 131, cat. no. 51 url: DeVonyar, Jill, and Richard Kendall. Degas and Music. Glen Falls, NY: Hyde Collection, 2009. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 44, 45, no. 2 url: Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Director's Choice. London: Scala, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 58-59 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.130/1976.130_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.130/1976.130_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.130/1976.130_full.tif