Half-Length Study of a Woman | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1940.2
People: Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title: Half-Length Study of a Woman
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1890
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/298418

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal and pastel on blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

57.5 x 50.8 cm (22 5/8 x 20 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: Black crayon, l.r.: Degas
inscription: l.r., crayon, signed, in artist's hand: Degas

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Atelier Degas, sold [through Vente II, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 11-13, 1918, no. 126]. Paul Rosenberg. Paul J. Sachs. [Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York] to; Fogg Art Museum, 1940 [in exchange]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Arthur Sachs
Accession Year: 1940
Object Number: 1940.2
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Carol Rothschild, "Recent Museum Acquisitions", Parnassus, College Art Association of America (May 1940), Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 46-50, 56, p. 48
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 671, fig. 347
Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, Paul Brame and Cesar M. de Hauke (Paris, France, 1946-1949), vol. III, no. 798, repr.
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1962), pl. 131
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, Italy, 1970), fig. 627
Pia Desantis, "Study of the Five Degas Pastels in the Fogg Art Museum" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, July 1985), Unpublished, pp. 1-94 passim
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. 24, fig. 32 (color), pp. 64, 75 note 116
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. 126
Hannelore Fischer and Alexandra von dem Knesebeck, "Paris bezauberte mich..." Käthe Kollwitz und die französische Moderne, exh. cat., Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln (Cologne, 2010), p. 125, repr. p. 125 as pl. 121

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Drawings by Degas, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 10/27/1930 - 11/15/1930
Degas, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/09/1931 - 05/30/1931
Drawings by Degas, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/01/1932 - 12/31/1932
Edgar Degas: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Sculpture, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 11/28/1933 - 12/18/1933
Nineteenth-Century French Paintings (?), Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 11/17/1942 - 12/08/1942
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
Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005

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1940.2: Half-Length Study of a Woman