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Three quarter profile portrait of a woman seated on a chair

In fine graphite lines on a cream colored paper, a young woman is shown in three quarter profile sitting in a chair facing left. She looks ahead calmly and raises her right hand in front of her. Her long hair is tied in back and she wears a shawl around her shoulders, over a long dress with a short collar, long sleeves and lacy cuffs. The floor length skirt covers her legs and feet. The ornate carved post of the chair is seen behind her at left, and the background around her head is touched with white highlights.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.254
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Study for "Julie Burtey"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1867
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296329

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hard and soft graphite with touches of white chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
36.1 x 27.2 cm (14 3/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
framed: 54 x 41.3 x 1.6 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: l.l.: Vente signature stamp [L. 658] in red
  • stamp: on verso: Atelier stamp [L. 657]
  • watermark: A tree within a circle
  • inscription: u.r., black crayon, in artist's hand: Mme Julie Burtey

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hilarie-Germain-Edgar Degas atelier [Vente II, Galerie Georges Petite, December 11-13, 1918, no. 347 as “Femme assise dans un fateueil. Étude pour le portrait de Mme Julie Burtin"], sold to Reginald Davis, Paris. Mme Demotte, Paris, 1924, sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, 1928, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.254
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Henri Rivière, ed., Les Dessins de Degas, Demotte (Paris, France, 1922 - 1923), no. 26, pl. 56
  • Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition Degas au profit de la ligue Franco-Anglo-Américaine contre le cancer, exh. cat., G. Petit (Paris, France, 1924), no. 81
  • Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1929), no. 32
  • Agnes Mongan, "Portrait Studies by Degas in American Collections", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, May 1932), vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 64-65, repr. on cover
  • Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1935), no. 119
  • Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1935), no. 114, repr.
  • Degas, 1834-1917, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1936), no. 64, repr.
  • Jacqueline Bouchot-Saupique and Marie Delaroche-Vernet, Degas, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, France, 1937), no. 69
  • "Sachs Drawings on View at Brooklyn Museum", Art Digest (March 1 1939), vol. 13, no. 11, p. 24
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 663, fig. 339
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 16
  • Jacques Lassaigne, Edgar Degas, Hypérion (Paris, France, 1945), p. 6, repr.
  • Camille Mauclair, Edgar Degas, Hyperion Press (New York, NY, 1945), p. 2, repr.
  • Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, Paul Brame and Cesar M. de Hauke (Paris, France, 1946-1949), vol. II, no. 108
  • 19th Century French Drawings, exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, CA, 1947), no. 87 p. 55
  • Randolph Schwabe, Degas: the draughtsman, The Art Trade Press (London, England, 1948), p. 8, repr.
  • Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Letters, ed. Marcel Guérin, Bruno Cassirer (Oxford, England, 1948), ill. 6 (as Mme Julie Burtin)
  • Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 1951), cat. no. 33, n.p., repr.
  • James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), p. 144, repr. p. 141
  • An exhibition of works by Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, CA, 1958), no. 13, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), no. 160, pl. 155
  • Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), no. 160, pl. 141
  • Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 160, pp. 107-108, pl. 141, repr.
  • Jakob Rosenberg, Great Draughtsmen from Pisanello to Picasso, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1959), pp. 108-109, xxii, repr.
  • Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1961), no. 4
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1962), pl. 35
  • Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann and Standish D. Lawder, Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: a catalogue raisonné, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1964), vol. 1, p. 80, fig. 62
  • Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Degas, Janet Borden Inc. (Los Angeles, CA, 1964), repr.
  • Theodore Reff, "The Chronology of Degas's Notebooks", The Burlington Magazine (December 1965), vol. CVII, no. 753, p. 613, note 88
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 55, repr.
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Drawings by Degas, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO, 1966), no. 47, repr.
  • Mount Holyoke Friends of Art, The legacy of David and Ingres to nineteenth century art, exh. cat. (South Hadley, MA, 1966), no. 14
  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz, Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1967), p. 343, pl. 15
  • Keith Roberts, Edgar Degas, Purnell (Paulton, North Bristol, England, 1967), fig. 2, p. 5
  • An exhibition of the works of Edgar Degas at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, with selected loans from other collections, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1970), no. 17, repr.
  • Degas' drawings, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, NY, 1973), pl. 15
  • Barbara S. Shapiro, Edgar Degas: the Reluctant Impressionist, exh. cat., Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1974), no. 73
  • Jakob Rosenberg, Great Draughtsmen from Pisanello to Picasso [rev. ed.], Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1974), pp. 146-147, pl. 265
  • Ian Dunlop, Degas, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1979), pl. 41
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 89, n.p., pl. 89, repr.
  • Gabriel P. Weisberg and Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 1980), p. 30, fig. 50
  • Ronald Pickvance, "Tübingen and Berlin, Degas - Works on Paper", The Burlington Magazine (August 1984), vol. 126, p. 523
  • Götz Adriani, Edgar Degas: Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, exh. cat., DuMont Buchverlag (Köln, Germany, 1984), cat. 55; p. 349
  • Pinkney L. Near, French Paintings: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA, 1985), p. 28, fig. 2 under cat. 12
  • Denys Sutton, Edgar Degas, Life and Work, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1986), fig. 54, p. 68
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 289, p. 247, repr.
  • Rafael Fernandez and Alexandra R. Murphy, Degas in the Clark Collection, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1987), fig. 17a
  • Denys Sutton, "Edgar Degas: Tradition and Innovation", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (April 1988), vol. 111, p. 257, fig. 5
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / National Gallery of Canada (New York, NY and Ottawa, Canada, 1988), cat. 76
  • Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing, Dutton Studio Books, New York (New York, NY, 1991), p. 100, pl. 9b
  • Felix Baumann and Marianne Karabelnik, Degas: Die Portraits, exh. cat., Merrell Holberton / Kunsthaus Zurich (London, England and Zürich, Switzerland, 1994), cat. 90
  • Jürgen Baurmann and Otto Ludwig, "Schreiben: Texte und Formulierungen überarbeiten", Praxis Deutsch: Zeitschrift für den Deutschunterricht (May 1996), vol. 137, repr. p. 13
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 32 under "Graphite"
  • Holland Cotter, "Degas, Director: An Easel Becomes a Stage", The New York Times (August 5 2005), pp. B25, B27, p. B27
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), cat. no. 39, fig. 38 (color), p. 80
  • Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier 2e vente, December 11-13, 1918, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, December 11 - December 13, 1918), no. 347, repr.
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 528
  • Jay A. Clarke, ed., The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2013), p. 66 and p. 81 in n. 8
  • Henri Loyrette, Degas: A New Vision, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Melbourne/Houston, 2016), repr. p. 82

Exhibition History

  • Exposition Degas au profit de la ligue Franco-Anglo-Américaine contre le cancer, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 04/12/1924 - 05/02/1924
  • French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/06/1929 - 04/06/1929
  • Exhibition of Drawings by Degas, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 10/27/1930 - 11/15/1930
  • Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935 - 01/31/1935
  • Independent Painters of 19th Century Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/15/1935 - 04/28/1935
  • Degas, 1834-1917, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 11/01/1936 - 11/30/1936
  • Degas, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 03/01/1937 - 05/20/1937
  • Great Modern French Drawings, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum, Brooklyn, 01/01/1939 - 03/12/1939
  • Great Modern Drawings, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, 04/07/1940 - 05/01/1940
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
  • Untitled exhibition of French drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/08/1943 - 11/21/1943
  • Edgar Degas Bronzes, Drawings, Pastels, Buchholz Gallery, New York, 01/03/1945 - 01/27/1945
  • Drawings by Degas, Farnsworth Art Museum (now Davis Museum and Cultural Center), Wellesley, 02/16/1946 - 03/10/1946
  • 19th century French drawings, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 03/08/1947 - 04/06/1947
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Degas' Portraits of his Family and Friends, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 03/06/1948 - 03/28/1948
  • French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/15/1951 - 09/30/1951
  • French Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 03/28/1952 - 04/28/1952
  • An Exhibition of Drawings, Colby College, Miller Library, Waterville, 04/27/1956 - 05/23/1956
  • An Exhibition of Works by Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, 1834-1917, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 03/04/1958 - 04/06/1958
  • French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
  • Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/24/1961 - 05/20/1961
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • The Legacy of David and Ingres to Nineteenth Century Art, Dwight Art Memorial, South Hadley, 10/12/1966 - 11/13/1966
  • Drawings by Degas, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/20/1967 - 02/26/1967; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 03/10/1967 - 04/30/1967; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 05/16/1967 - 06/25/1967
  • Edgar Degas: the Reluctant Impressionist, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/19/1974 - 09/15/1974
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • Degas: Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, 01/14/1984 - 03/25/1984
  • Degas, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 02/09/1988 - 05/16/1988; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 06/16/1988 - 08/28/1988; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 09/27/1988 - 01/08/1989
  • Degas: the Portraits, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 12/02/1994 - 03/05/1995; Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, 03/18/1995 - 06/18/1995
  • The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005
  • Degas: A New Vision, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Melbourne, 06/24/2016 - 09/18/2016; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 10/16/2016 - 01/16/2017

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