Inscription
on base beside left foot: Degas
Provenance
The artist [1834-1917]; his heirs;[1] Adrien-Aurélien Hébrard [1865-1937], Paris;[2] his daughter, Nelly Hébrard [1904-1985], Paris;[3] consigned 1955 to (M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York); purchased May 1956 by Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA.
Associated Names
Degas, EdgarHébrard, Adrien-Aurélien
Hébrard, Nelly
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon, Paul
Exhibition History
- 1955
- Edgar Degas 1834-1917: Original Wax Sculptures, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York, 1955, no. 55.
- 1956
- Sculpture by Degas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1956.
- 1965
- Wax Sculptures by Degas, Sculptures and Drawings by Rodin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965-1966, no cat.
Bibliography
- 1949
- Borel, Pierre. Les Sculptures inédites de Degas. Geneva, 1949: n.p., repro.
- 1949
- Fevre, Jeanne. Mon oncle Degas. Geneva, 1949: repro. opp. 113.
- 1956
- Rewald, John. Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works. Translated by John Coleman and Noel Moulton. New York, 1956: no. LVII.
- 1991
- Pingeot, Anne. Degas Sculptures. Paris, 1991: no. 12.
- 1994
- Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 66, repro.
- 1995
- Barbour, Daphne, and Shelley Sturman. "Degas' Women in Washington: Four Case Studies." In From Marble to Chocolate: The Conservation of Modern Sculpture, edited by Jackie Heuman, 31-38. London, 1995: 33-34, figs. 3, 4.
- 1995
- Campbell, Sara. "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes." Apollo 142 (August 1995): 10-48, no. 52.
- 2002
- Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Anne Pingeot. Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002: 81, 223, figs. 14, 15, repro.
- 2010
- Lindsay, Suzanne Glover, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman. Edgar Degas Sculpture. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogu. Washington, D.C., 2010: no. 39, 238-241, color repro.
- 2017
- Lomax, Suzanne Quillen, Barbara H. Berrie, and Michael Palmer. "Edgar Degas's Wax Sculptures: Characterization and Comparison with Contemporary Practice." In Degas, Daphne Barbour and Suzanne Quillen Lomax, eds. Facture. Conservation, Science, Art History 3 (2017): 50-77, esp. 64.
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