Provenance
The artist [1834-1917], Paris; bequest to his heirs;[1] reportedly given to the Hébrard family, Paris, by Jeanne Fevre;[2] Nelly Hébrard [1904-1985], Paris, by 1955;[3] (M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York), by 1956;[4] sold 1958 to Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA.
Associated Names
Degas, EdgarHébrard, Adrien-Aurélien
Hébrard, Nelly
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon, Paul
Exhibition History
- 1955
- Possibly Edgar Degas 1834-1917: Original Wax Sculptures, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York, 1955, not in cat.
- 1991
- Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
- 1944
- Rewald, John. Degas, Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue. Translated by John Coleman and Noel Moulton. New York, 1944: 28, repro.
- 1949
- Borel, Pierre. Les Sculptures inédites de Degas. Geneva, 1949: n.p., repro.
- 1956
- Rewald, John. Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works. Translated by John Coleman and Noel Moulton. New York, 1956: no. LXXIV.
- 1970
- Reff, Theodore. "Degas' Sculpture, 1880-1884." Art Quarterly 33, no. 3 (1970): 287-293.
- 1976
- Millard, Charles W. The Sculpture of Edgar Degas. Princeton, 1976: 14-15, 33 n. 32, 65, 80-81, 83 n. 46, fig. 32.
- 1976
- Reff, Theodore. Degas: The Artist's Mind. New York and London, 1976: 257-264 (reprint Cambridge, Massachusetts 1987).
- 1979
- Failing, Patricia. "The Degas bronzes Degas never knew." Art News (April 1979): 41.
- 1991
- Pingeot, Anne. Degas Sculptures. Paris, 1991: no. 74, repro.
- 1995
- Campbell, Sara. "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes." Apollo 142 (August 1995): 10-48, 48, fig. 72.
- 1997
- Pingeot, Anne. "L'Écolière." 48/14: La Revue du Musée d'Orsay 5 (Autumn 1997): 30-31, repro.
- 2002
- Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Anne Pingeot. Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002: 268, repro.
- 2010
- Lindsay, Suzanne Glover, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman. Edgar Degas Sculpture. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2010: no. 57, 322-327, color repro.
- 2017
- Barbour, Daphne, and Shelley Sturman. "Casting Degas's Sculpture into Bronze: A Closer Look." In Degas, Daphne Barbour and Suzanne Quillen Lomax, eds. Facture. Conservation, Science, Art History 3 (2017): 78-111, esp. 78.
- 2017
- Lomax, Suzanne Quillen, Barbara H. Berrie, and Michael Palmer. "Edgar Degas's Wax Sculptures: Characterization and Comparison with Contemporary Practice." In Degas, Daphne Barbour and Suzanne Quillen Lomax, eds. Facture. Conservation, Science, Art History 3 (2017): 50-77, esp. 65-66.
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