Study of a Female Nude

1856/1858

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of J. Carter Brown

  • Dimensions

    overall: 45 x 29 cm (17 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

  • 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


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