Portrait of Edgar Degas in profile

Edgar Degas|Michel Manzi

1886 · Color etching with roulette · Drawings and Prints

Manzi moved to Paris in the early 1880s to work for the renowned print publishing house Goupil & Cie. A pioneer of photomechanical printmaking, Manzi shared with Edgar Degas an interest in experimentation and innovative reproductive technologies. They worked together on a portfolio of twenty facsimiles of Degas’s drawings in 1898. Manzi also helped Degas to acquire the exceptional collection of prints by Edouard Manet from Philippe Burty’s estate. Among a dozen portraits he made of Degas, this print is dedicated to Paul Arthur Chéramy, a lawyer and collector, who represented Degas at trial in 1887, when he was sued for not finishing a commission.

Artist

Edgar Degas|Michel Manzi

Date

1886

Medium

Color etching with roulette

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, 2019