Self-Portrait, by 1857, Black chalk and graphite, heightened with white on heavy beige wove paper, Sheet: 11 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (29.8 x 23.1cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Degas portrayed his aloof, slightly pouty, patrician features a number of times in the course of his career, particularly as a young man. This early example, executed when the artist was little more than twenty-years old, served as the model for a self-portrait etching he made in 1857, which reproduces the image in reverse
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Self-Portrait, 1857, Black chalk, graphite, heightened, white, heavy beige wove paper, Sheet, 11 3/4 x 9 1/8, 29.8 23.1cm, Drawings, Edgar Degas, French, Paris, 1834–1917, Degas portrayed, aloof, slightly pouty, patrician features, number, times, course, career, particularly, young man, early example, executed, artist, little, twenty-years old, served, model, self-portrait etching, reproduces, image, reverse
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