Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Master Copy #8

Degas after Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, better known in the history of art as Sodoma (pronounced So'-do-mah).


Sodoma (1477 – 1549)  Saint Sebastian, 1525


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EDGAR DEGAS
1834 - 1917
SAINT SÉBASTIEN
stamped Degas (lower left) and dated Flor 1857 (lower right); stamped Atelier Ed. Degas on
reverse
pencil on paper
30.1 by 23.5cm., 11 7/8 by 9 1/4 in.
Executed in Florence in 1857.

PROVENANCE
Estate of the artist
Sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4ème Vente Atelier Edgar Degas, 2nd-4th July 1919, lot 97b
Pozze
Private Collection, Paris
Thence by descent to the present owner
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