National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Degas: master of French art

Room 1: The early years and portraiture

Contains: 'Self-portrait (Autoportrait)' winter 1857 second state of five edition of three etching 23 x 14.4 cm (plate) 26.3 x 17.2 cm (sheet) Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris res Dc 327dh fol, boîte 2, Rc A 27729 Reed and Shapiro 8 / Adhémar 13 'Copy after Delacroix’s ‘Entry of the crusaders into Constantinople’ (Copie d'après Delacroix, La prise de Constantinople)' c 1860 oil on cardboard 35 x 38 cm Kunsthaus Zürich Gift of René Wehrli, 2005 Bram / Reff 35 © 2008 Kunsthaus Zürich. All rights reserved 'Mary Cassatt in the Louvre looking at paintings' 1879–80 second state of 20 edition of one etching, aquatint, drypoint and electric crayon 30.5 x 12.6 cm (plate), 41x 24 cm (sheet) Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris res Dc 327dh fol, boîte 6 Reed and Shapiro 52 / Adhémar 54 'Roman beggar woman (Mendiante romaine)' 1857 oil on canvas 100.3 x 75.2 cm Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham 1960P44 Lemoisne 28 'A cotton office in New Orleans (Un bureau de coton à la Nouvelle-Orléans)' 1873 oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau 878.1.2 Lemoisne 320

Room 2: The races

Contains: 'Rider in a red coat, taking off his top hat (Cavalier en habit rouge, enlevant son chapeau haut-de-forme)' c 1868–70 peinture à l’essence on pink paper 43.5 x 27.6 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Housed at the Département des arts graphiques, Musée du Louvre RF 12276 Brame and Reff 66 © RMN / Jean-Gilles Berizzi 'The racecourse (Amateur jockeys close to a carriage) (Le champ de courses (Jockeys amateurs près d'une voiture))' 1876–87 oil on canvas 66 x 81 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris RF 1980 Legacy of Count Isaac de Camondo, 1911 Lemoisne 461 © RMN / Hervé Lewandowski 'Woman with field glasses (Femme à la lorgnette (La dame aux jumelles))' 1875–76 peinture à l’essence on cardboard 48 x 32 cm Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden 2601 Lemoisne 431 'At the races: before the start (Aux courses: avant le départ)' c 1880–92 oil on canvas 40 x 89 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia 875.496 Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon Lemoisne 502 Photograph: Katherine Wetzel © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 'Horse galloping on right foot (Cheval au galop sur le pied droit)' modelled c 1890; cast c 1926 bronze cast O of 25 30.5 x 47 x 21.3 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis 55.15 The David Draper Dayton Fund Czestochowski and Pingeot 47 'The return of the herd (La rentrée du troupeau)' c 1898 oil on canvas 71 x 92 cm New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester IIA1969 Lemoisne 1213

Room 3: Painterly prints: the monotypes

Contains: 'Pauline and Virginie Cardinal chatting with some admirers (Pauline et Virginie Cardinal bavardant avec des admirateurs)' 1876–77 monotype in black ink on china paper, heightened with white and grey gouache 21.8 x 16.2 cm (plate), 33.4 x 22 cm (sheet) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2006.1060 The Poynton Bequest 2006 Janis 218 / Cachin not listed 'In the salon (Au salon)' 1876–77 first of two impressions monotype in black ink on white paper 12 x 16 cm (plate), 19.7 x 25.5 cm (sheet) Bibliothèque de l’institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris EM DEGAS 11 Collections Jacques Doucet Janis 79 / Cachin 88

Room 4: The ballet, the theatre and the cafe concert

Contains: 'Mlle Fiocre in the ballet 'La Source' (Mlle Fiocre dans le ballet de 'La Source')' 1867–68 oil on canvas 130.8 x 145.1 cm The Brooklyn Museum, New York 21.111 Gift of James H Post, A Augustus Healy, and John T Underwood Lemoisne 146 'Horse at a trough (Cheval à l’abreuvoir)' modelled 1860–68; cast 1920 cast A of 24 bronze 16.5 x 22.5 x 13.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 29.100.433 HO Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs HO Havemeyer, 1929 Czestochowski and Pingeot 13 Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art 'The dance class (Ecole de danse)' c 1873 oil on canvas 47.6 x 62.2 cm Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC 26.74 William A Clark Collection, 1926 Lemoisne 398 'Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs (Mlle Bécat au Café des Ambassadeurs)' 1877–78 only state edition of 15 lithograph on white paper 20.6 x 19.4 cm (image), 33.4 x 26.6 cm (sheet) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2005.949 The Poynton Bequest 2005 Reed and Shapiro 31 / Adhémar 42

Room 5: The ballet

Contains: 'The dance class (La classe de danse)' 1873–76 oil on canvas 85 x 75 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris RF1976 Legacy of Count Isaac Camondo, 1911 Lemoisne 341 © RMN / Hervé Lewandowski 'A group of dancers (Groupe de danseuses)' 1890s oil on paper, laid on canvas 46 x 61 cm National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh NG2225 Presented by Sir Alexander Maitland in memory of his wife Rosalind, 1960 Lemoisne 770