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on wax behind 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.

Exhibition History

1955
Edgar Degas 1834-1917: Original Wax Sculptures, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York, 1955, no. 52.
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

1919
Lemoisne, Paul-André. "Les statuettes de Degas." Art et Décoration 214 (September-October 1919): 114, repro.
1949
Borel, Pierre. Les Sculptures inédites de Degas. Geneva, 1949: 10, repro.
1956
Rewald, John. Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works. Translated by John Coleman and Noel Moulton. New York, 1956: no. LIV.
1986
McCarty, John. "A Sculptor's Thoughts on the Degas Waxes." In Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor, edited by John W. Wilmerding, 217-225. Washington, D.C., 1986: 225 n. 11.
1991
Lesser, Wendy. "Degas's Nudes." In His Other Half: Men Looking at Women Through Art, 53-80. Cambridge, MA, 1991: 69.
1991
Pingeot, Anne. Degas Sculptures. Paris, 1991: no. 61, repro.
1992
Barbour, Daphne. "Degas's Wax Sculptures from the Inside Out." The Burlington Magazine 84, no. 1077 (December 1992): 803, fig. 39 (radiograph).
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 71, repro.
1995
Campbell, Sara. "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes." Apollo 142 (August 1995): 10-48, no. 42.
2002
Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Anne Pingeot. Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002: 203, repro.
2010
Lindsay, Suzanne Glover, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman. Edgar Degas Sculpture. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2010: no. 46, 272-275, color repro.

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