Master Copy #8

Degas after Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, better known in the history of art as Sodoma (pronounced So'-do-mah).

Sodoma (1477 – 1549)  Saint Sebastian, 1525

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EDGAR DEGAS

1834 - 1917

SAINT SÉBASTIEN

stamped Degas (lower left) and dated Flor 1857 (lower right); stamped Atelier Ed. Degas on

reverse

pencil on paper

30.1 by 23.5cm., 11 7/8 by 9 1/4 in.

Executed in Florence in 1857.

PROVENANCE

Estate of the artist

Sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4ème Vente Atelier Edgar Degas, 2nd-4th July 1919, lot 97b

Pozze

Private Collection, Paris

Thence by descent to the present owner

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Sodoma