Mademoiselle Bécat at the Cafe des Ambassadeurs (Aux Ambassadeurs: Mlle Bécat)

c. 1877

Edgar Degas

Associated Names
Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

The image shows a woman standing with her arms outstretched, palms open. Her facial features are subtly portrayed. She has styled hair and wears a dress with a fitted bodice and detailed sleeves. The background features a window with fireworks outside, a chandelier, and decorative elements or mirrors to the sides. The overall tone is dark and dramatic.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.8 × 19.4 cm (8 3/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 34.4 × 27.4 cm (13 9/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.107

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 31 state only; Delteil, no. 49, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Edgar Degas, Paris (Lugt 657). Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 86)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1955

  • Edgar Degas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1955, no cat.

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. 105.

1971

  • An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 14.

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Mademoiselle Becat at the Café des Ambassadeurs.

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

Inscriptions

recto: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: D125/K836 Aux Ambassadeurs, Mlle Becat; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: 800.-; verso: none

Markings

recto: Atelier Ed. Degas (Lugt 657); verso: Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65071933

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