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Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste de Gas
Edgar Degas, around 1871–1872
54,5 × 39,5 cm
Oil on canvas
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Edgar Degas, around 1871–1872
54,5 × 39,5 cm
Oil on canvas
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste de Gas[1] is the title of a painting by Edgar Degas. Painted in oil on canvas, it is 54.5 cm high and 39.5 cm wide. The double portrait, painted around 1871–1872,[2] shows the Catalan tenor Lorenzo Pagans performing a song and guitar recital. The painter's father, Auguste de Gas,[3] sits in the audience behind him. The painting is one of a series of portraits of musicians that Degas painted beginning in the late 1860s. It is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
- ^ The German title is taken from the exhibition catalog Peter Pakesch, Verena Formanek: Blicke auf Carmen, p. 260. Accordingly, the Musée d'Orsay also titles the painting Lorenzo Pagans et Auguste de Gas, see weblinks. In the 1946 catalog of works, however, the painting is listed as Pagans chantant et le père de Degas (Der Sänger Pagans und der Vater von Degas) see Paul-Andé Lemoisne: Degas et son oeuvre, Volume II, p. 122. The alternative title Degas’ Vater hört Lorenzo Degas zu was related to Melissa MacQuillan: Porträtmalerei der französischen Impressionisten, p. 68.
- ^ In the 1946 catalog of works, the painting is still dated around 1869. See Paul-Andé Lemoisne: Degas et son oeuvre, Volume II, p. 122. More recent publications consistently state around 1871-1872. See, for example, Jean Sutherland Boggs: Degas, p. 169.
- ^ The name Degas was borne by the Italian branch of the family, including Edgar Degas' grandfather. The father Auguste changed to De Gas. This spelling, or rather the form De Gas, was adopted by the French and American members of the family. Edgar Degas initially exhibited his paintings as Edgar de Gas and only changed to Degas in 1874. See Jean Sutherland Boggs: Degas, p. 21.