3262209 Portrait of Marie-Celestine De Gas, mother of Edgar Degas, c.1832-34 (gouache on ivory) by French School, (19th century); 11.6x8.7 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: This is one of a pair of exquisitely painted miniatures of identical size and oval format, representing Degas\'s mother and father about 1832-34, the earlier date corresponding to their marriage, the later one to the birth of their oldest child, Hilaire-Germain Edgar, the future artist. Marie Celestine Musson, who was born in 1815 and thus appears here at the age of seventeen to nineteen, was to give birth to two more sons and two daughters before dying prematurely at the age of thirty-two in 1847.); Photo 穢 Christie\'s Images.