Hortense Valpinçon, 1883

Not on View

Medium

pastel and graphite on wove paper; laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 22.3 x 16 cm (8 3/4 x 6 5/16 in.)
support: 28.9 x 22.4 cm (11 3/8 x 8 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Lemoisne 1946, no. 722

Accession Number

1995.47.34

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right stamped in red: Degas (Lugt 658)

Provenance

(4th Degas sale, Paris, 16 November 1918, 73b); Nunès and Fiquet Collection, Paris; Marcel Guérin, Paris; Guillaume Guérin, Sanary-sur-mer, Var, France, by 1966; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1967; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Guérin, Marcel
Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1966: Drawings by Degas, City Art Museum of Saint Louis; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and The Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (Jean Sutherland Boggs), 1966-1967, no 114.

2016: In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1922: Rivière, Henri. Les dessins de Degas. Paris, 1922-1923: no. 30, repr.(see also 1973 reprint, Degas' Drawings, New York, 1973: no. 71).

1931: Lemoisne, Paul-André. "A propos des Degas de la Collection de M. Marcel Guérin." L'Amour de l'Art (July 1931): 286, fig. 48.

1946: Lemoisne, Paul André. Degas et son oeuvre. 4 vols. Paris: Arts et metiers graphiques, 1946-1949. Vols. 2 and 3, 1946. Reprinted in 5 vols., New York and London, 1984.

1962: Boggs, Jean Sutherland. Portraits by Degas. Berkeley, CA, 1962: no. 125.

1970: Minervino, Fiorella. L'Opera completa di Degas. Milan, 1970: no. 603.

1984: Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son Oeuvre 5 vols. New York, 1984: 410-411, no. 722.

1988: Boggs, Jean Sutherland. Degas. Exh. cat. Grand Palais, Paris, and tour, 1988: 410, under no. 243, fig. 221 (repro.).

1994: Baumann, Felix and Marianne Karabelnik, eds. Degas Portraits. Exh. cat. London: 1994, p. 64 (repr).