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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.189
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Young Woman Lying on a Chaise Longue
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Femme nue, couchée sur un divan
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1895-1900
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370189

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal and pastel on brown wove paper
Dimensions
35.4 × 55.7 cm (13 15/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower right, red ink stamp: degas [Degas estate sale stamp, Lugt 658]
  • collector's mark: upper left, red ink stamp: ATELIER ED. DEGAS [encircled] [Degas studio stamp; Lugt 657]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Property of the artist; sold [through his estate sale, Atelier Degas III, Galerie Georges Petit, April 7-9, 1919, lot 331]. [Durand-Ruel & Cie, Paris]. [Justin K. Thannhauser], sold; to Arthur K. Solomon, by 1937; The Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Trust, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.189
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, Paul Brame and Cesar M. de Hauke (Paris, France, 1946-1949), vol. 3, no. 1402, p. 808, repr. p. 809
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / National Gallery of Canada (New York, NY and Ottawa, Canada, 1988), p. 519, fig. 295, under cat. no. 313
  • 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. 55, pp. 51-52 and 188, repr. p. 52, fig. 27
  • Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier 3e vente, April 7-9, 1919, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, April 7 - April 9, 1919), p. 255, lot 331, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005

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