Degas in court

• Autores: Theodore Reff
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 153, Nº 1298, 2011, págs. 318-325
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The writer examines documents relating to Edgar Degas's self defense in a civil court proceeding in Paris in May 1887. The case was one of two in which, in the space of a decade, Degas lost civil court proceedings in Paris, in June 1877 and May 1887. In the second proceeding, Degas was sued by the collector Jean-Baptiste Faure for failing to deliver pictures Faure had commissioned and paid for 13 years earlier. The trial has remained so little known that its very existence has been doubted, yet there is a court record of that proceeding in the Archives de Paris. In addition, several unpublished letters from Degas to his dealer, his lawyer, and his close friends provide a fuller image than has previously been available of the impact of these public events on his closely guarded private life, as well as deeper insights into his conflicted attitudes toward creative satisfaction and financial responsibility.