Chestnut Vendors (Marchands de marrons)
1878
Artist, French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903

Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 20.7 x 16.3 cm (8 1/8 x 6 7/16 in.)
sheet: 30 x 21.6 cm (11 13/16 x 8 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1946.21.152
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Catalogue Raisonné
Delteil, no. 15, State i/ii
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 125)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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. 33.
1997
The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997-1998, no. 930.
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 bottom left, in graphite in later hand: Le Marché; verso: at lower left, in graphite in later hand: B2198-150; at lower right, in graphite in later hand: FNO; at bottom center, in graphite in later hand: 20735 / 41 [circled]
Markings
recto: none; verso: Atelier Ed. Degas (Lugt 657) and Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)
Wikidata ID
Q65071095