Inscription
on lower proper left front corner of chair: Degas [stamped replica of artist's signature]; stamped on lower proper right back corner of chair: CIRE PERDUE AAHEBRARD / 44/C
Marks and Labels
FM: CIRE PERDUE AAHEBRARD
Provenance
(A.A. Hébrard, Paris); reportedly (Galerie Kaganovitch, Paris), before 1952.[1] R. Gaston Dreyfus;[2] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 March 1966, no. 52); purchased by (P. & D. Colnaghi, London) for Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia;[3] gift 1985 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1952
- Possibly Edgar Degas, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1952, no. 143, as Vrouw in stoel.
- 1955
- Possibly The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Galerie Chalette, New York, 1955, no. 24.
- 1974
- Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1974, unnumbered checklist.
- 2010
- Edgar Degas: Figures in Motion, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 2010 (used as the catalogue: Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas - Sculptures, Memphis, 2002).
Bibliography
- 1991
- Pingeot, Anne. Degas Sculptures. Paris, 1991: no. 58.
- 1994
- Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 71, repro.
- 1995
- Barbour, Daphne, and Shelley Sturman. "Degas' Women in Washington: Four Case Studies." In From Marble to Chocolate: The Conservation of Modern Sculpture, edited by Jackie Heuman, 31-38. London, 1995: 33, fig. 1.
- 1995
- Campbell, Sara. "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes." Apollo 142 (August 1995): 32, no. 44 (with erroneous provenance).
- 2002
- Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Anne Pingeot. Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002: 207.
- 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. 52, 300-301, color repro.
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