This work is a study for the oil painting « Chez la Modiste », Lemoisne III, n°832 (The Art Institute, Chicago). Degas made two further studies of the same compositional detail, Lemoisne III, n° 833 and n°835.

Edgar Degas
Femme tenant un chapeau

  • 1885
  • Pastel
  • 46 x 60 cm

More information

Vente stamp lower left

Provenance

II. Vente 1918, N°169
Collection Aubert, Paris
Private Collection

Exhibitions

Tuebingen, Kunsthalle, and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Edgar Degas: Pastelle, Oelskizzen, Zeichnungen, 1984, n°160, illustrated in colour page 44.

Bibliography

P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, Paris, Vol. III, n°834, illustrated.

 

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