Seeing Clearly: Eyeglasses and the Scholar's Eye
Portraits at the Stock Exchange
Gallery 816 · Edgar Degas · ca. 1878–79 · Met web page
Edgar Degas, Portraits at the Stock Exchange, ca. 1878–79. Pastel on paper. A financier wearing spectacles examines a document while conducting business.
Gallery 953 → Gallery 816
To Portraits at the Stock Exchange
From gallery 953, retrace your steps back through galleries 954 and 955 to gallery 962. Continue to gallery 521 in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts section, then to gallery 520. From there, take the escalator up to Floor 2. Walk through the galleries, passing through the Asian Art section (gallery 200), Drawings and Prints (gallery 690), Photographs (gallery 850), and European Sculpture and Decorative Arts (gallery 800). Continue to European Paintings galleries 801 and 817, and finally to gallery 816, where this pastel is displayed.