Terms and conditions of use
The one who looked around most avidly was the Marquis Cavalcanti
(Celui qui tournait le plus, c'était le marquis de Cavalcanti)
(c. 1880-1883)
- Medium
- monotype
- Measurements
- 21.3 × 16.0 cm (plate) 27.3 × 19.6 cm irreg. (sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Janis 222
- Inscription
- stamped in blue ink l.r.: degas (estate stamp) 658
stamped l.l.: (six petalled rosettte)
stamped l.r.: 40/DE (reversed) - Accession Number
- P2-1974
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1974
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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This monotype is part of a series created by Edgar Degas as illustrations for Ludovic Halévy’s 1883 La Famille Cardinal, a collection of stories that centre on the antics of Mr and Mrs Cardinal and their two daughters, both of whom are dancers at the Opéra de Paris. Rather than providing a strictly literal illustration of the stories, Degas primarily depicted scenes of theatre life in general. Perhaps for this reason, his monotypes were rejected by Halévy and were not used with the text until a posthumous edition was published in 1938. In this monotype, Mrs Cardinal chastises her daughter for spending time at the opera in the unchaperoned company of the Marquis Cavalcanti, whom Mrs Cardinal also reproaches for encouraging such behaviour.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- men (male humans) socialising women (female humans)
