This study for an oil painting (musée d'orsay, paris) depicts the financier ernest may, a collector of degas' work, under the portico of the paris stock exchange. May was thirty-three in 1878, when degas began the pastel. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: circa 1878–79. Dimensions: height: 72.1 cm (28.3 in); width: 58.1 cm (22.8 in). Medium: canvas, pastel on paper. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Edgar Degas, Portraits at the Stock Exchange, ca. 1878–79
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