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Provenance

René de Gas, brother of the artist; (de Gas sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 November 1927, no. 73); purchased by (Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris); for Chester Dale [1883-1962]; gift 1963 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1928
100 Years of French Portraits from the Chester Dale Collection, Museum of French Art, New York, 1928, no. 9
1931
Degas and his Tradition, Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, no. 4
1931
Exposition Degas, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1931, no. 10
1932
Naval and Military Portraits, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1932, no. 10.
1933
Edgar Degas, The Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1933, no. 10.
1936
Degas, The Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1936, no. 3, repro.
1938
Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 1938, no. 10
1938
The Precursors of Modern Art, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, 1938, no. 9, repro.
1939
Masterworks of Five Centuries, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939, no. 145
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
2010
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1929
Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 25, repro.
1931
Blanche, Jacques-Emile. "Faces: Portraits by Degas." Formes 12 (February 1931): 21+, repro.
1935
Tietze, Hans. Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika. Vienna, 1935: 290, repro. (English ed., Masterpieces of European Painting in America. New York, 1939: 290, repro.).
1941
Catalogue of French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 5, pl. IX
1941
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Now the Great French 19th Century in the National Gallery." Art News 40, no. 17 (December 15-31, 1941):repro. p. 18
1942
Dale, Chester. "The Golden Century of French Art." The New York Times Magazine 17 May 1942: 20, repro.
1942
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 35, repro.
1944
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 164, color repro.
1944
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 35, repro.
1944
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and their Contemporaries Represented in American Collections. New York, 1944: repro. 109.
1946
Lemoisne, Paul André. Degas et son oeuvre. 4 vols. Paris, 1946-1949.
1946
Rewald, John. "Degas and His Family in New Orleans." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6e ser., 30 (August 1946): 112, fig. 7
1946
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, 1946: repro.
1953
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 44, repro.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 325, repro.
1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 72, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 39.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:434, color repro.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 31, repro.
1970
Minervino 1970, no.124.
1973
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. Rev. ed., New York, 1973: repro. p.56
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 98, repro.
1980
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York, 1980: 434, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 474, no. 696, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 121, repro.
1994
Baumann, Felix and Marianne Karabelnik, eds. Degas Portraits. Exh.cat. Zurich, 1994:178, repro.
1997
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism, 1997, no. 264, repro.
2017
Hoenigswald, Ann, and Kimberly A. Jones. "The Question of Finish in the Work of Edgar Degas." In Degas, Daphne Barbour and Suzanne Quillen Lomax, eds. Facture. Conservation, Science, Art History 3 (2017): 20-49, esp. 34-35, fig. 10.

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