Marks and Labels
Atelier stamp at lower left in red ink
Provenance
Degas atelier (Lugt 657); René de Gas [1845-1927, brother of the artist]; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 10 November 1927, lot 12); (purchased by Paul Rosenberg et Cie.); purchased December 1929 by John Nicholas Brown, Providence, R.I.; (David Tunick, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 13 August 1986; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner; gift to NGA, 1991.
Exhibition History
- 1931
- Dix-Neufs Portraits de Degas par Lui-Même, Marcel Guérin, Paris, 1931.
- 1935
- Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1935, no. 113.
- 1936
- Degas 1834-1917, The Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1936, no. 58.
- 1962
- Forty Master Drawings from the Collection of John Nicholas Brown, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1962, no. 5.
- 1967
- Drawings by Degas, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis and tour, 1967, no. 1.
- 1987
- Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 91.
- 1988
- Degas, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo and tour, 1988-89, no. 9.
- 1990
- Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 115.
- 1994
- Degas -- Portraits, Kunsthaus Zürich, 1994-1995, no. 23, repro. p. 162.
- 1995
- The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 105.
- 2001
- "Degas and America: The Early Collectors", High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2001, no. 6.
- 2001
- Degas and America: The Early Collectors, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2001, no. 6.
- 2006
- Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
- 2017
- The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
- 1932
- Mongan, Agnes. "Portrait Studies by Degas in American Collections." Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum 1, no 4. (May 1932): 63, fig. 3.
- 1946
- Lemoisne, Paul André. Degas et son oeuvre. 4 vols. Paris: Arts et metiers graphiques, 1946-1949. Vols. 2 and 3, 1946. Reprinted in 5 vols., New York and London, 1984.
- 1946
- Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, 1946: repro. 12.
- 1948
- Huyghe, René, and Philippe Jaccottet. Le Dessin Français au XIXe siècle. Lausanne, 1948: 175, pl. 90.
- 1959
- Rosenberg, Jakob. Great Draughtsmen from Pisanello to Picasso. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959: 107-108, fig. 197.
- 1987
- Melikian, Souren. "A Master Collector, Ian Woodner: An Eye for the Future." Art & Auction. (November 1987): 86.
- 1995
- The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 105.
- 1999
- Gammell, R.H. Ives. "The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas, Chapter III" Classical Realism Journal 5 (Spring 1999): 34.
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