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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.28
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Studies for "The Daughter of Jephthah" (recto and verso)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1859 - 1861
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296863

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on wove oatmeal paper; verso: graphite
Dimensions
actual: 32.2 x 24.7 cm (12 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Created, Atelier Degas sold at Vente I, no. 6b, 1918.
Le Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, 1959.
Marian Harris Phinney, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1962.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.28
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1961), no. 16
  • Fogg Art Museum, Studies and Study Sheets: Master Drawings from Five Centuries, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1964), no. 12
  • Barbara S. Shapiro, Edgar Degas: the Reluctant Impressionist, exh. cat., Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1974), no. 70
  • 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. 34, fig. 12 (recto; color), fig. 58 (verso), p. 30

Exhibition History

  • Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/24/1961 - 05/20/1961
  • Studies and Study Sheets, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/26/1964 - 04/18/1964
  • Five Study Drawings for the Painting "Daughter of Jephtha" by Edgar Degas, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 12/14/1966 - 01/01/1967
  • Edgar Degas: the Reluctant Impressionist, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/19/1974 - 09/15/1974

Verification Level

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