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A woman resting, slightly bent over with her back against a white wall. Her hands rest on her knees as she looks out beyond the viewer.

A woman rests with her back against a white wall. She is bent over and kneeling forward, resting her hands on her knees and looking out beyond the viewer. She wears a black long-sleeved shirt with large ruffles on the sleeves, with a long white dress over it. The front of her dress has a large black bow on the chest, and she wears a black choker-style necklace. She has a smiling expression, and her face is loosely rendered with dark oval eyes and dark lips. The background is to the right of the white wall, and appears to be an open doorway to an adjacent room. The walls are dark, and there appears to be a small grouping of stacked wine glasses in the right corner, shaped like a pyramid.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.203
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Mademoiselle Bécat at the Cafe des Ambassadeurs
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Aux Ambassadeurs: Mlle. Becat.
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1877-1878
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/364457

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph on off-white wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
stone: 16.1 × 12.1 cm (6 5/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
sheet: 17.4 × 13 cm (6 7/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower center, graphite, erased: Mlle Becat. 15 50[?]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 7244 [cut off on bottom edge]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf], sold; to Victor Carlson, 1992, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Delteil 50

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Victor I. Carlson
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.203
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara S. Shapiro, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Arts Council of Great Britain, London (Boston), pp. 89-90, cat. 30 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
  • Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin, Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs, and Monotypes, Viking Press (New York, 1973), p. 264, cat. 43 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
  • Jodi Hauptman, Degas: A Strange New Beauty, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2016), p. 96, cat. 39 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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