Study for "Mary Cassatt at the Louvre" [verso], c. 1879

Not on View

Medium

carbon and softground wax transfer on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 32.3 x 24.5 cm (12 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Lemoisne 1946, undescribed

Accession Number

1995.47.36.b

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left verso stamped in red: Degas (Lugt 658)

Provenance

(4th Degas sale, Paris, 2-4 July 1919, no. 250b); Marcel Guérin, Paris; Mr. [d. 1970] and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, Great Neck, Long Island, New York, by 1966; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Avnet, Lester Francis Mr. and Mrs.
Guérin, Marcel
Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1967: Drawings by Degas. City Art Museum of Saint Louis, and tour, 1966-1967, no. 85

1970: An Exhibition of the Works of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute with Selected Loans from Other Collections. Williamstown, MA, 1970: no. 27.

1999: An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.

2014: Degas/Cassatt, NGA, 2014, no.

Bibliography

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.