Mademoiselle Bécat at the Cafe des Ambassadeurs (Aux Ambassadeurs: Mlle Bécat), c. 1877

Not on View

Medium

lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 20.8 × 19.4 cm (8 3/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 34.4 × 27.4 cm (13 9/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 31 state only; Delteil, no. 49, State only

Accession Number

1946.21.107

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: D125/K836 Aux Ambassadeurs, Mlle Becat; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: 800.-; verso: none

Marks and Labels

recto: Atelier Ed. Degas (Lugt 657); verso: 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 86)

Associated Names

Hartshorne, Robert
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1955: Edgar Degas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1955, no cat.

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. 105.

1971: An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 14.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Mademoiselle Becat at the Café des Ambassadeurs.

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.