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Degas, collector, acquires a painting by Delacroix in exchange for three of his pastels of dancers as currency

Degas, collector, acquires a painting by Delacroix in exchange for three of his pastels of dancers as currency

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Degas, collector, acquires a painting by Delacroix in exchange for three of his pastels of dancers as currency: “I pay you as follow: three pastels from me”

by [DELACROIX] Edgar DEGAS

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[DELACROIX] DEGAS, Edgar (1834-1917)

Autograph letter signed "Degas" to collector Montagnac
Np, 27 June [18]95, 2 pages in-8 oblong, on laid paper, in bespoke leather sleeve.
Fold marks, previous and discreet tape repair on verso

Degas, collector, acquires a painting by Delacroix in exchange for three of his pastels of dancers as currency

" Cher Monsieur Montagnac
Je reçois votre lettre ce matin et le tableau
[de Delacroix] arrive à 2h. Donc il est convenu que je vous achète ce portrait du baron Schwiter douze mille francs et que je vous paie ainsi : trois pastels de moi. Je transcris votre lettre, du reste j'y copie : Deux de ces pastels représenteront des groupes de danseuses, et le troisième une ou deux blanchisseuses. Pour ce dernier je me réserve la faculté de les remplacer par des danseuses, si ça m'allait mieux.
Si vous pouvez, me dites-vous, me livrer un de ces pastels d'ici un ou deux mois vous me feriez le plus grand plaisir. Vous ajoutez : Il est entendu que les 3 pastels seront terminés pour l'hiver prochain. Tout cela est bien et j'y souscris.
Au revoir, cher Monsieur, et recevez mes remercîments.
Degas "

A shrewd collector, Degas had assembled a remarkable collection of paintings, from the Renaissance to Romanticism, including Greco, Ingres, Courbet, Delacroix etc. Of the latter, of which he owned thirteen paintings, it is the portrait of Baron Schwiter that is here the object of his lusts.
This full-length portrait of Baron Louis de Schwiter (1805-1889), an important collector and familiar of Delacroix, was painted in 1827. Refused by the jury of the Salon the same year, it is now kept at the National Gallery in London, which had acquired it during the dispersal of Degas' property after his passing in 1917.

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Degas, collector, acquires a painting by Delacroix in exchange for three of his pastels of dancers as currency
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[DELACROIX] Edgar DEGAS
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1895
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Edgar, Degas, art, autograph, letter, signed, als, manuscript, painting, pastel, dancer, opera, belle, epoque, paris

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