About This Artwork

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin (formerly Head of a Woman), 1877/79

Graphite on ivory laid paper
241 x 220 mm (sheet)
Not signed
Given in memory of Charles Barnett Goodspeed by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed, 1947.810

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, The Arts Club, "Modern Sculpture and Drawings by Sculptors," 1933, cat. 79, as Portrait of Mary Cassatt.

Chicago, The Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago," November 4-25, 1938, cat 23, as Portrait of Mary Cassatt.

Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, "Degas," August 13-September 30, 1979, cat. 66, as Head of a Woman.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, p. 110, cat. 48 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.

Martigny, Switzerland, Fondation Pierre Gianadda Martigny, "Degas," June 18-November 21, 1993.

Publication History

Henri Rivière, Les Dessins de Degas (Paris, 1922), no. 92.

Degas Drawings (New York, 1973), no. 77 (ill.).

Ronald Pickvance, Degas 1879 (Edinburgh, 1979), pp. 60, no. 66.

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 44, no. 2G3.

Ronald Pickvance, Degas (Martigny, Switzerland, 1993), no. 6 (ill.).

Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 40, 90 (ill.), and 109, pl. 19.

Ownership History

Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]. Marcel Bing, Paris, to 1919. Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, by 1933 [Chicago 1933]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.