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Inscription

recto: along bottom, in graphite, in later hand: Au Louvre La Peinture (Miss Cassatt) R.H. xv ice; verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: 90981; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: FWX

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Atelier Ed. Degas (Lugt 657) and Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)

Provenance

Edgar Degas, Paris (Lugt 657). Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 84)

Exhibition History

1951
Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 53.
1960
Loan exhibition of Degas for the benefit of the Citizen's Committee for Children of New York, Inc., Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1960, no. 118.
1964
Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 31, repro.
1966
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1966.
1983
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.
1984
Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, 1984-1985, no. 52 (XII-XIII), repro.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
2001
The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, repro.
2004
The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2004-2005.
2014
Degas/Cassatt, NGA, 2014, no.

Bibliography

1906
Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.
1984
Reed, Sue Welsh, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984: no.52, State xii-xiii/xx (intermediate state)
1996
White, Barbara Ehrlich. Impressionists Side by Side: Their Friendships, Rivalries, and Artistic Exchanges. New York, 1996: 196, repro.

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