About This Artwork
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917
Madame Lisle and Madame Loubens1869/1872
Graphite on tan wove paper, squared in black crayon, laid down on cream Japanese paper
284 x 320 mm (sheet)
Not signed.
Restricted gift of Mrs. Henry C. Woods and Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Fund Income, 1977.311
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago" July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 43-45, cat. 14 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Publication History
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas (Berkeley, 1962), pp. 25, 27, and 91 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 38-39, no. 2E9.
Ownership History
Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 11-13, 1919, lot 337. Sold by Patrick de Bayser, Paris, to Mrs. Eliot Hodgkin [a letter from Eliot Hodgkin of October 1982 in curatorial file]; Mrs. Eliot Hodgkin, Chelsea; sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 30, 1977, lot 106, to the Art Institute.