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Edgar Degas

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery, 1879/1880

Not on View

Medium

etching, soft-ground etching, aquatint, and drypoint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 30.2 x 12.5 cm (11 7/8 x 4 15/16 in.)

sheet: 36.2 x 22.3 cm (14 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Reed/Shapiro 1984, no. 52, State xii-xiii/xx (intermediate state)

Accession Number

1946.21.106

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (artist) French, 1834 - 1917

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Inscription

recto: along bottom, in graphite, in later hand: Au Louvre La Peinture (Miss Cassatt) R.H. xv ice; verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: 90981; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: FWX

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Atelier Ed. Degas (Lugt 657) and Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b)

Provenance

Edgar Degas, Paris (Lugt 657). Robert Hartshorne (1866-1927), New Jersey (Lugt 2215b); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1946, lot 84)

Associated Names

Hartshorne, Robert
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1951: Mary Cassatt and her Parisian Friends, Pasadena Art Institute, CA, 1951, no. 53.

1960: Loan exhibition of Degas for the benefit of the Citizen's Committee for Children of New York, Inc., Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1960, no. 118.

1964: Etchings by Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago, 1964, no. 31, repro.

1966: Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1966.

1983: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

1984: Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, 1984-1985, no. 52 (XII-XIII), repro.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, repro.

2004: The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2004-2005.

2014: Degas/Cassatt, NGA, 2014, no.

Bibliography

1906: Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

1984: Reed, Sue Welsh, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984: no.52, State xii-xiii/xx (intermediate state)

1996: White, Barbara Ehrlich. Impressionists Side by Side: Their Friendships, Rivalries, and Artistic Exchanges. New York, 1996: 196, repro.