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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Edgar Degas with Paul Poujaud and Marie Fontaine at Ernest Chausson's house. Paris, 1896. Period silver print. Handwritten annotations by Paul Poujaud on verso. 12.7 x 17.3 cm Provenance : Former Paul Poujaud archive, by descent. Bibliography: - Antoine Terrasse, Degas et la photographie, Paris, Éditions Denoël, 1983, ill. 9. - Malcolm Daniel, Edgard Degas, Photographer, exhibition cat. at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Abrams, 1998, pl. 32, cat 30a. In 1931, in a letter to Marcel Guérin, Paul Poujaud described the conditions under which the photograph was taken and staged: "I'm sending you a small document for your Degas archives that may interest you. It's a photograph Degas took after dinner in Chausson's salon, in 1894, at the height of his passion for photography: Degas in a very familiar pose, Mme Arthur Fontaine, sister of Mmes Lerolle and Chausson, and I, still Poujaud the black, Degas had composed the group and on a sign from him Guillaume Lerolle closed the lens" (Françoise Heilbrun suggests that Paul Poujaud is mistaken in giving the date 1894, since Edgar Degas began photography in 1895. It seems more likely to her that the picture was taken the following year). Edgar Degas, Lettres, Paris, Grasset, 2011, p. 249.
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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Edgar Degas with Paul Poujaud and Marie Fontaine at Ernest Chausson's house. Paris, 1896. Period silver print. Handwritten annotations by Paul Poujaud on verso. 12.7 x 17.3 cm Provenance : Former Paul Poujaud archive, by descent. Bibliography: - Antoine Terrasse, Degas et la photographie, Paris, Éditions Denoël, 1983, ill. 9. - Malcolm Daniel, Edgard Degas, Photographer, exhibition cat. at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Abrams, 1998, pl. 32, cat 30a. In 1931, in a letter to Marcel Guérin, Paul Poujaud described the conditions under which the photograph was taken and staged: "I'm sending you a small document for your Degas archives that may interest you. It's a photograph Degas took after dinner in Chausson's salon, in 1894, at the height of his passion for photography: Degas in a very familiar pose, Mme Arthur Fontaine, sister of Mmes Lerolle and Chausson, and I, still Poujaud the black, Degas had composed the group and on a sign from him Guillaume Lerolle closed the lens" (Françoise Heilbrun suggests that Paul Poujaud is mistaken in giving the date 1894, since Edgar Degas began photography in 1895. It seems more likely to her that the picture was taken the following year). Edgar Degas, Lettres, Paris, Grasset, 2011, p. 249.
