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Full body portrait of a woman walking to the right

On a tan background, a woman in a late nineteenth century walking dress is shown in profile, walking to the right. The jacket and bustle are shown in washes of pale gray and blue, while below is a dark floor length skirt. She wears a black bonnet with a dark blue ribbon falling in front of her, as she turns her head slightly toward the viewer with a serious expression. Down at her side, quick brushwork appears to show that she holds a small bag in her right right hand.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.260
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Young Woman in Street Costume
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1879
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299858

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, white and gray gouache with traces of black chalk on tan wove paper discolored to brown
Dimensions
actual: 32.5 x 25 cm (12 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Blue crayon, l.r.: Degas
  • inscription: l.r., blue chalk, signed: Degas

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Durand-Ruel, New York], sold to Paul J. Sachs, 1929, 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
1965.260
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Washington School of Art (Port Washington, NY), Lessons 9-10, fig. 31
  • Vingt dessins de Degas, 1861-1896, Goupil et Cie (Paris, France, 1898), pl. 11
  • Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1929), no. 33
  • Independent Painters of Nineteenth Century Paris, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1935), no. 122
  • Degas, 1834-1917, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1936), no. 76, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, "Degas as seen in American collections", The Burlington Magazine (June 1938), LXXII, repr. opp. p. 296
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 669, fig. 345
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 22
  • Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, Paul Brame and Cesar M. de Hauke (Paris, France, 1946-1949), vol. II, no. 296, repr.
  • Phillips Memorial Gallery, Loan exhibition of drawings & pastels by Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, exh. cat., Phillips Memorial Gallery (Washington, D.C, 1947), no. 32
  • Works by Edgar Degas, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 1947), no. 66, pl. LIII
  • René Huyghe and Philippe Jaccottet, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Mermod (Lausanne, Switzerland, 1948), pl. 95
  • A loan exhibition of Degas for the benefit of the New York Infirmary, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, NY, 1949), no. 24
  • Klaus Berger, Französische Meisterzeichnungen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Holbein-Verlag (Basel, Switzerland, 1949), no. 41, repr.
  • Regina Shoolman Slatkin and Charles E. Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America, Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY, 1950), pl. 101, p. 178
  • Daniel Catton Rich, Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1951), p. 12, repr.
  • René Huyghe, Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1953), no. 8
  • Daniel Catton Rich, Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas [Pocket Books ed.], Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1953), pl. 8
  • De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: chefs-d'oeuvres des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, France, 1955), no. 70, pl. 60
  • Roseline Bacou and Maurice Sérullaz, French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1955), no. 151
  • An exhibition of works by Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, CA, 1958), no. 19, repr.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, Edgar Degas, DuMont Schauberg (Cologne, Germany, 1959), p. 10, repr.
  • Degas: loan exhibition, for the benefit of the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, inc., exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, NY, 1960), no. 81
  • Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1961), no. 19
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, Paintings, drawings and graphic works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, exh. cat. (Baltimore, MD, 1962), no. 36, repr.
  • Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Degas, Janet Borden Inc. (Los Angeles, CA, 1964), repr.
  • 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. 58, repr.
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Drawings by Degas, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO, 1966), no. 62
  • Eugenia Parry Janis, "Degas Drawings", The Burlington Magazine (July 1967), CIX, 772, p. 413
  • Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, Italy, 1970), fig. 278
  • Katharine Kuh, "Degas: The Reluctant Impressionist", Fine Arts (May 1974), vol. 10, repr. p. 44
  • Barbara S. Shapiro, Edgar Degas: the Reluctant Impressionist, exh. cat., Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1974), no. 75
  • Ian Dunlop, Degas, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1979), pl. 68
  • Antoine Terrasse, Edgar Degas, Werkverzeichnis, Ullstein KunstBuch (Frankfurt, Germany, 1981), no. 180, repr.
  • Nathan Goldstein, A Guide to 100 American and European Drawings: A Portfolio, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1982), pl. 16
  • Götz Adriani, Edgar Degas: Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, exh. cat., DuMont Buchverlag (Köln, Germany, 1984), cat. 86 (color repr.); p. 360
  • Götz Adriani, Degas: Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings, exh. cat., Thames & Hudson (London, England, 1985), cat. 86 (color repr.); p. 360
  • Denys Sutton, Edgar Degas, Life and Work, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1986), fig. 203, pl. 216
  • 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. 288, p. 246, repr.
  • Melvyn Bragg, Great artists: a treasury of paintings by the masters, Exeter Books (New York, NY, 1987), p. 369
  • Horst Keller, Edgar Degas, Bruckmann Verlag (München, 1988), fig. 65
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Ann Dumas and Colta Ives, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1997), p. 92, fig. 111 (color)
  • Cate McQuaid, "Degas, Intimately", The Boston Globe (August 12, 2005), Weekend section, repr.
  • 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. 45, fig. 39 (color) pp. 29, 34, 64, 66, 73 note 88, 83
  • Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendall, Picasso Looks at Degas, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 2010), p. 62, fig. 67 (Goupil reproduction)

Exhibition History

  • French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/06/1929 - 04/06/1929
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • France Forever, Institute of Modern Art (now Institute of Contemporary Art), Boston, 11/01/1943 - 11/30/1943
  • Drawings by Degas, Farnsworth Art Museum (now Davis Museum and Cultural Center), Wellesley, 02/16/1946 - 03/10/1946
  • Works by Edgar Degas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/05/1947 - 03/09/1947
  • Loan Exhibition of Drawings & Pastels by Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, 03/30/1947 - 04/30/1947
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lawrence Art Museum, 1948, Lawrence Art Museum, Williamstown, 11/01/1948 - 11/30/1948
  • A loan exhibition of Degas for the benefit of the New York Infirmary, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 04/06/1949 - 05/14/1949
  • French Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 03/28/1952 - 04/28/1952
  • The Pleasures of Collecting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 01/01/1955 - 02/28/1955
  • De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: chefs d'oeuvre des collections américaines, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 04/20/1955 - 07/05/1955
  • French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 10/13/1955 - 11/27/1955; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 12/02/1955 - 12/29/1955; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 01/07/1956 - 02/11/1956; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 03/07/1956 - 04/10/1956
  • 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
  • Degas: Loan exhibition, for the Benefit of the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Inc., Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 04/07/1960 - 05/07/1960
  • Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/24/1961 - 05/20/1961
  • Paintings, drawings and graphic works by Manet, Degas, Morisot and Cassatt, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 04/18/1962 - 06/03/1962
  • 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
  • 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
  • Degas: Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, 01/14/1984 - 03/25/1984
  • 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

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