Marguerite De Gas, the Artist's Sister (Marguerite De Gas, soeur de l'artiste), 1860/1862

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Medium

etching and drypoint on paper

Dimensions

plate: 10.7 × 8.7 cm (4 3/16 × 3 7/16 in.)

sheet: 13.2 × 10.4 cm (5 3/16 × 4 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 14, State iv/vi

Accession Number

1946.21.109

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: M 27244 M 25152 [second number crossed out]; verso: at bottom center, in graphite, in later hand: [indecipherable] 86

Marks and Labels

recto: Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421)?; verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b) and Charles B. Eddy (Lugt 499)

Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley [1847-1919], Paris (Lugt 421)?. Charles B. Eddy (1872-1951), Plainfield, NJ (Lugt 499). Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 83)

Associated Names

Beurdeley, Alfred
Eddy, Charles B.
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. 114.

1964: Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 16, repro.

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/Shapiro 1984, no.14, State iv/vi (dated 1860-1862).