Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Portrait of Degas
Degas au chapeau
about 1876
Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin
Sheet (irregular): 22.7 x 14.6 cm (8 15/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Graphite pencil on paper
Classification: Drawings
Accession number: 2012.5
Provenance/Ownership History: March 30, 2011, purchased by W. M. Brady, New York, at auction Artcurial - Briest - Poulain - F. Trajan, Paris, lot 131; 2011, sold by Brady to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)
John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund