Woman Reading (Liseuse)

c. 1885

Edgar Degas

Artist, French, 1834 - 1917

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    monotype in black ink on cream laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 38 x 27.7 cm (14 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 44.3 x 32.5 cm (17 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.16.292

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Janis 1968, no. 141

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrich Stinnes [1867-1932], Cologne (Lugt 4436)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 102.

1953

  • Monotypes by French and American Impressionists, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1953.

1955

  • Monotypes, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

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. 103.

1962

  • Paintings, drawings and graphic works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1962, no. 75.

1968

  • Degas Monotypes, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, no. 34, repro.

1985

  • Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.

1994

  • Degas Monotypes, Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994-1995, no. 61.

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Woman Reading.

2004

  • The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2004-2005.

2009

  • The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009-2010.

2011

  • Degas and the Nude, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2011-2012, fig. 108.

2014

  • Degas: Klassik und Experiment, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2014-2015, no. 126, repro.

2016

  • Degas: Impressions, The Museum of Modern Art, 2016.

Bibliography

1968

  • Janis, Eugenia Parry, compiler. Degas Monotypes; essay, catalogue, and checklist. Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, 1968.

1995

  • Callen, Anthea. The Spectacular Body: Science, Method, and Meaning in the Work of Degas, New Haven and London, 1995: no. 72.

Inscriptions

recto: in image, at lower right: degas & Lepic

Markings

recto: Heinrich Stinnes (Lugt 4436); verso: none

Watermarks

crowned coat of arms

Wikidata ID

Q65222717

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