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Edgar Degas

Woman Arranging Her Hair, original wax possibly late 1880s/1890s, cast 1920/1962

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G4

Medium

copper alloy

Dimensions

overall with base: 46.5 x 26.1 x 15.2 cm (18 5/16 x 10 1/4 x 6 in.)
height (of figure): 46.1 cm (18 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1985.64.65

Artists / Makers

Edgar Degas (sculptor) French, 1834 - 1917

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Inscription

on top of base in front right corner: Degas [stamped replica of artist's signature]; on top of base in rear left corner: CIRE/PERDUE/A.A. HEBRARD; stamped to left of foundry mark: 50/M

Marks and Labels

FM: A.A. Hebrard

Provenance

(A.A. Hébrard, Paris). sold by December 1962 to (Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London);[1] sold December 1964 to Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA.

[1] This information was kindly supplied by Mrs. Mary Miller, Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd., letter of 24 September 2002 to Anne Halpern, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Marlborough Fine Art
Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1978: Degas, Virginia Museum, Richmond, 1978, no. 49.

Bibliography

1962: [Cat. No. 111], Marlborough Fine Art Limited, London, 1962: no. 10.

1991: Pingeot, Anne. Degas Sculptures. Paris, 1991: no. 62.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 70, repro.

1995: Campbell, Sara. "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes." Apollo 142 (August 1995): 35, no. 50.

2002: Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Anne Pingeot. Degas--Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes. Memphis, 2002: 219.

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. 44, 264-265, color repro.