id: 154285 accession number: 1988.93 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.93 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:04.080000 Ludovic Lepic Holding His Dog, 1889. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Pastel; sheet: 49.8 x 32.1 cm (19 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.); secondary support: 50.6 x 38 cm (19 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Mildred Andrews Fund 1988.93 title: Ludovic Lepic Holding His Dog title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1889 creation date earliest: 1889 creation date latest: 1889 current location: creditline: Gift of the Mildred Andrews Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: pastel department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Lemoisne 950 --- 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: 49.8 x 32.1 cm (19 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 50.6 x 38 cm (19 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: blue laid (?) paper (faded to gray-green), laid down on brown wove paper on wooden stretcher watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1988 opening date: 1989-03-01T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989). title: Object in Focus: Ludovic Lepic Holding His Dog by Edgar Degas opening date: 1998-03-17T00:00:00 Object in Focus: Ludovic Lepic Holding His Dog by Edgar Degas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-April 20, 1998). 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). 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: Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2016-11-19T05:00:00 Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Degas, portraitiste, sculpteur. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (July 19 - October 1, 1931).", 'opening_date': '1931-07-19T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Estate of Edgar Degas [1834-1917], Paris date: 1917-1918 footnotes: *
Lugt 658, lower left, in red ink
citations: (Galerie Georges Petit, second Degas sale, Paris, December 12-13, 1918, no. 87, probably sold to Georges Viau) date: 1918 footnotes: citations: Georges Viau [1855-1939], Paris date: probably 1918-1942 footnotes: citations: (Hotel Druout, Georges Viau sale, Paris, December 11, 1942, no. 65) date: 1942 footnotes: citations: (M. Knoedler and Co., Paris) date: 1953? footnotes: citations: John B. and Mildred [1890/92-1988] Putnam, Cleveland, OH date: after 1953-before 1962 footnotes: citations: Peter A. Putnam, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: by 1962-1988 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1988- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue des tableaux, pastels, et dessins par Edgar Degas...2e vente. Paris: Georges Petit, 1918. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 49, no. 87 url: Degas, portratiste, sculpteur. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée de l'Orangerie, 1931. page number: Mentioned: p. 99, no. 135 url: Catalogue des dessins, aquarelles, gouaches, pastels...composant la collection de M. Georges Viau. Paris: Drouot, 1942. page number: Mentioned: p. 25, no. 65; Reproduced: pl. III url: Lemoisne, Paul Andre. Degas et son oeuvre. Paris: Brame et de Hauke, 1946. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. III, no. 950 url: Boggs, Jean Sutherland. Portraits by Degas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. page number: Mentioned: p. 69, no. 135; Reproduced: no. 135 url: Russoli, Franco. L'opera completa di Degas. Milan: Rizzoli, 1970. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 116, no. 666 url: "Recent Acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art I: Departments of Western Art." Burlington Magazine 133, no. 1054 (January 1991): 63-68. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 66, no. XIV url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/884642 Buchanan, Harvey. 1991. Edgar Degas and Ludovic Lepic : An Impressionist Friendship. Cleveland, Ohio: Harvey Buchanan. page number: Mentioned: p. 1-150 url: Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed: Impressionist Masterpieces and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. page number: Mentioned: p. 70; Reproduced: p. 77, fig. 6 url: Buchanan, Harvey. "Edgar Degas and Ludovic Lepic: An Impressionist Friendship." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 2 (1997): 32-121. page number: Mentioned: 32-121; Reproduced: p. 33 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079691 Prenant, Stéphanie. "Restauration ou revolution?: Emile Levy (1826-1890) et le pastel français dans les annees 1880." MA thesis, Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, 2015. page number: Mentioned: p. 85; Reproduced: p. 80, fig. 75 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.93/1988.93_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.93/1988.93_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.93/1988.93_full.tif