Study for "Mary Cassatt at the Louvre" [verso]

c. 1879

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    carbon and softground wax transfer on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 32.3 x 24.5 cm (12 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.47.36.b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lemoisne 1946, undescribed


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(4th Degas sale, Paris, 2-4 July 1919, no. 250b); Marcel Guérin, Paris; Mr. [d. 1970] and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, Great Neck, Long Island, New York, by 1966; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Drawings by Degas. City Art Museum of Saint Louis, and tour, 1966-1967, no. 85

1970

  • An Exhibition of the Works of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute with Selected Loans from Other Collections. Williamstown, MA, 1970: no. 27.

1999

  • An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.

2014

  • Degas/Cassatt, NGA, 2014, no.

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.

Inscriptions

lower left verso stamped in red: Degas (Lugt 658)

Wikidata ID

Q64556378


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