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Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History, Volume 3: Degas, edited by Daphne Barbour, senior object conservator and Suzanne Quillen Lomax, senior conservator scientist at the National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Edgar Degas
Ballet Dancers, c. 1877
pastel and gouache over monotype
overall: 29.7 x 26.9 cm (11 11/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
framed: 46.6 x 43.5 x 6.3 cm (18 3/8 x 17 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

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Edgar Degas
Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey, 1866, reworked 1880–1881 and c. 1897
oil on canvas
overall: 180 x 152 cm (70 7/8 x 59 13/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

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Edgar Degas
Woman Ironing, begun c. 1876, completed c. 1887
oil on canvas
overall: 81.3 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in.)
framed: 99 x 82.5 cm (39 x 32 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

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Edgar Degas
Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli, c. 1865
oil on canvas
overall: 117.2 x 89.7 cm (46 1/8 x 35 5/16 in.)
framed: 141.6 x 114.9 cm (55 3/4 x 45 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection

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Edgar Degas
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878–1881
pigmented beeswax, clay, metal armature, rope, paintbrushes, human hair, silk and linen ribbon, cotton faille bodice, cotton and silk tutu, linen slippers, on wooden base
overall without base: 98.9 x 34.7 x 35.2 cm (38 15/16 x 13 11/16 x 13 7/8 in)
weight: 49 lb. (22.226 kg)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

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Edgar Degas
The Tub, c. 1889
pigmented beeswax, plastilene, plaster, lead, wood, cloth, wire, on wooden base
overall without base: 22.5 x 42.3 x 47.2 cm (8 7/8 x 16 5/8 x 18 9/16 in.)
height (of figure): 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

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Edgar Degas
Ballet Scene, c. 1907
pastel on greenish transparent tracing paper
overall: 76.8 x 111.2 cm (30 1/4 x 43 3/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection

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Edgar Degas
Study for "Mary Cassatt at the Louvre" [recto], c. 1879
graphite with blind stylus on wove paper
overall: 32.3 x 24.5 cm (12 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon