The private collection of Edgar Degas
By: Ann Dumas ... [et al. ; translation from the French by Mark Polizzotti].
Contributors: Dumas, Ann.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Distributed by H.N. Abrams
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.; Art, French -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.; Art -- Exhibitions.; Art -- Private collections -- France -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: When Edgar Degas died in 1917, his enormous art collection, consisting of several thousand paintings, drawings, and prints, came to light. This remarkable assemblage included great numbers of works by the French nineteenth-century masters whom Degas revered - Delacroix, Ingres, and Daumier - and at the same time demonstrated Degas's profound interest in the art of certain of his contemporaries, particularly Manet, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Mary Cassatt.

Dispersed when it was sold at auction in 1918 during the bombardment of Paris, the collection is now the subject of both an illuminating exhibition and this accompanying catalogue. In a series of essays, some previously published and some written for this book, major scholars discuss, from various perspectives, Degas's collection and its relation to his own art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998.