"The masters must be copied over and over again," Degas said, "and it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that you should reasonably be permitted to draw a radish from nature." Degas first received permission to copy paintings at the Louvre in 1853 when he was eighteen. He was most interested in the great works of the Italian Renaissance and of his own classical French heritage, hence this detailed copy of Poussin's painting.
Details
- Artist Name: Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
- Title: The Abduction of the Sabine Women (after Nicolas Poussin)
- Date: c. 1861-1862
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 59-1/8 x 81-1/2 in. (150.18 x 207.01 cm)
- Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation, Gift of Mr. Norton Simon
- Accession Number: F.1983.06.P
- Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation
Object Information
Rouart, by inheritance to;
Mme. Helen (Eugène) Marin, née Rouart, (d. 1929) Paris, by inheritance to her daughter;
Mme. Bricka, Montpellier, by 1937, presumably still in 1946.
[?Leonardo] Benatov, Paris.
Huntington Hartford, New York, sold 1958 to;
[E.V. Thaw & Co., New York, owned jointly with Stephen Hahn, New York, sold 3 May1978 to];
Norton Simon, gift 1983 to;
The Norton Simon Foundation.
Degas
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- Paintings from the Huntington Hartford Collection in the Gallery of Modern Art,fig. 18
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- Thompson, James, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin,fig. 28 pp. 34, 37
- Lemoisne, Paul-André, Degas et son oeuvre,no. 273 p. 135
- Halévy, Daniel, My Friend Degas, p. 57
- Meier-Graefe, Julius, Degas,pl. VIII pp. 22-23
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