LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pastel and graphite over etching and aquatint on paper

Size Notes:

Image; Sheet: 15.5 x 12cm

Markings:

signed Degas (lower right)

Exhibited:

New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, . New Orleans Collects: Early Masters of Modern Art , 1968, no. 11

Literature:

Loys Delteil, . Le Peintre -Graveur Illustré (XIX et XX siecles), Tome Neuvième, . Edgar Degas , Paris, 1919, no. 26, illustration of other states, n.p. Jean Adhémar & Françoise Cachin, . Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes , New York, 1975, no. 28, illustration of another state n.p. Sue Welsh Reed & Barbara Stern Shapiro, . Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, Boston, 1984, no. 47, illustration of other states, pp. 144-48. Paul André Lemoisne, . Degas et son œuvre , . A Supplement , New York & London, 1984, no. 84, illustrated p. 91

Provenance:

M. Knoedler & Co, New York (acquired in 1926). Private Collection (sale: Christie's, London, 25th June 1976, lot 30). Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 5th November 2008, lot 147). Purchased at the above sale by the present owner