Laundress Carrying Linen

c. 1885/1895

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal counterproof on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 45.4 x 59.2 cm (17 7/8 x 23 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.24

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lemoisne 1946, no. 1420, State counterproof of

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Atelier Degas (sold Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, fourth sale, July 2-4, 1919, no. 357); René de Gas (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 10 November 1927, no. 50); purchased by (Jean Metthey, Paris). Monsieur S--; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 November 1969, no. 20 and plate III); Armand Hammer Collection, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1970 to 1987, starting with Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971.

2007

  • Degas and the Art of Japan, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, 2007.

2015

  • Degas, an Impressionist Painter?, Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny, France, 2015.

Bibliography

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.

Markings

lower left, atelier stamp: Degas

Watermarks

bottom right: PL BAS; bottom left: AL encircled with two ovals

Wikidata ID

Q64556366

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