Study of a Female Nude
1856/1858
Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 45 x 29 cm (17 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.88.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Degas atelier sale (fourth sale), Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2-4 July 1919, no. 126b). Lucien Heuraux, Paris. Private collection, New York. Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976], Atlanta. J. Carter Brown, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2007.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1964
Drawing and the Human Figure, 1400 - 1964, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, no. 91.
1981
Drawings from Georgia Collections, 19th and 20th Centuries, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1981, no. 14.
1985
Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1985, no. 80.
2012
Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 19.
2015
Degas, an Impressionist Painter?, Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny, 2015.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: Rome; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Ph 2354
Markings
estate stamps of Degas (Lugt 657 and 658)
Wikidata ID
Q64556398