Woman Reading (Liseuse)
c. 1885
Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

Artwork overview
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Medium
monotype in black ink on cream laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 38 x 27.7 cm (14 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
sheet: 44.3 x 32.5 cm (17 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1950.16.292
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Catalogue Raisonné
Janis 1968, no. 141
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Heinrich Stinnes [1867-1932], Cologne (Lugt 4436)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1950
Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 102.
1953
Monotypes by French and American Impressionists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1953.
1955
Monotypes, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.
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. 103.
1962
Paintings, drawings and graphic works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1962, no. 75.
1968
Degas Monotypes, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, no. 34, repro.
1985
Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.
1994
Degas Monotypes, Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994-1995, no. 61.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Woman Reading.
2004
The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2004-2005.
2009
The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009-2010.
2011
Degas and the Nude, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2011-2012, fig. 108.
2014
Degas: Klassik und Experiment, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2014-2015, no. 126, repro.
2016
Degas: Impressions, The Museum of Modern Art, 2016.
Bibliography
1968
Janis, Eugenia Parry, compiler. Degas Monotypes; essay, catalogue, and checklist. Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, 1968.
1995
Callen, Anthea. The Spectacular Body: Science, Method, and Meaning in the Work of Degas, New Haven and London, 1995: no. 72.
Inscriptions
recto: in image, at lower right: degas & Lepic
Markings
recto: Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 4436); verso: none
Watermarks
crowned coat of arms
Wikidata ID
Q65222717