Study of a Female Nude

1856/1858

Edgar Degas

Associated Names
Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

The image depicts a nude figure standing with their feet together, hands raised to their face, head slightly bowed forward. The person's face is undetailed, with short hair. Surrounding the main figure are sketches of body parts in various poses and a partial head sketch in profile. The background is plain.

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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 Number

    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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