Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin (formerly Head of a Woman)

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Prints and Drawings

1877/79

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

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Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin (formerly Head of a Woman)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1877–1885
Medium: Graphite on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: Sheet: 24.1 × 22 cm (9 1/2 × 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Given in memory of Charles Barnett Goodspeed by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed
Reference Number: 1947.810
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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.

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.

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.

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