Description & Technical information

Date:  1881
Period:  19th century, 1850-1900
Origin:  France
Medium: Pastel, Pencil on paper
Signature: Stamp of the signature lower left Degas

Dimensions: 58.4 x 39.4 cm (23 x 15¹/₂ inches)
Provenance: Atelier Edgar Degas, Paris
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Edgar Degas, 2e vente, 11-13 December 1918, lot 279
Otto Wertheimer, Paris, 1951
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1951
Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, Bradford, PA, c.1952 until at least 1967
E.V. Thaw & Co., New York
M. and Mrs. Lester F. Avnet, c.1970
Lester F. Avnet Estate, 1972
Alice M. Kaplan
Private collection, by descent
Private collection, New York

Literature: - Atelier Edgar Degas, vente II : Catalogue des Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins par Edgar Degas, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11-13 December 1918, p. 162, n° 279, repr.
- Theodore Reff, Degas: The Artist’s Mind, New York, 1976, p. 252, fig. 167, p. 253.
- Linda Bantel, The Alice M. Kaplan Collection, New York, 1981, p. 124-125, n° 55, repr.

Exhibitions: - Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery [Albright-Knox Art Gallery], Buffalo, Two Collections
from Western New York, 12 January-10 February, 1952, n° 26 (as T. Edward Hanley collection)
- New York, Wildenstein and Co., 22 November – 30 December 1961; Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum,
January-February 1962, Paintings and Drawings from the Hanley Collection, p. 9, n° 51.
- New York, Gallery of Modern Art, 3 January-12 March 1967; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 6 April-28 Mai 1967, Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, Bradford, Pennsylvania,
p. 28, repr. p. 62.
- New York, New York Cultural Center, A Selection of Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolors from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, 9 December-25 January 1970), pl. 26 et n.p.

Categories: Paintings, Drawings & Prints