Head, Study for a Portrait of Mme Salle
original clay c. 1892, cast 1920/1926
Sculptor, French, 1834 - 1917
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G3
Artwork overview
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Medium
copper alloy
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall without base: 13.9 x 9.9 x 12 cm (5 1/2 x 3 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
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Accession
1995.47.16
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(A.A. Hébrard, Paris), 1920/1926; sold 12 July 1926 to (Flechtheim, Düsseldorf).[1] P.W. Nerney;[2] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 April 1964, no. 176); purchased by Mr. Betts, possibly of (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London),[3] for Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1988, no. 118, bought in); (sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 4 June 1994, no. 116, bought in); gift 1995 to NGA.
[1] Anne Pingeot, Degas: Sculptures, Paris, 1991: cat. 69.
[2] The consignor's name was kindly provided by Eva Avloniti of Sotheby's London office (e-mail of 9 April 2003 to Anne Halpern, in NGA curatorial files).
[3] Betts (no first name cited) is the name of the buyer in the published sale price list, though Mellon collection records cite Colnaghi as the buyer. It is possible that Betts served as agent for Colnaghi, as he apparently did on other occasions, though there is nothing about the transaction in the Colnaghi ledgers under either Betts or Mellon. This information about Betts was kindly provided by Timothy Warner-Johnson of Colnaghi's (e-mail of 21 October 2004 to Anne Halpern; see also copy of Mellon collection records, both in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.
Bibliography
1991
Pingeot, Anne. Degas Sculptures. Paris, 1991: no. 69.
1995
Campbell, Sara. "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes." Apollo 142 (August 1995): 14, no. 7.
2002
Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Anne Pingeot. Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002: 135.
2010
Lindsay, Suzanne Glover, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman. Edgar Degas Sculpture. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2010: no. 62, 348-349, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left side: degas [stamped replica of artist's signature]; on back of neck: Degas 7/G; stamped in same location: CIRE PERDUE AAHEBRARD
Markings
FM: A.A. HEBRARD
Wikidata ID
Q63860809