Study for a Portrait of Marguérite de Gas

Prints and Drawings

1859/60

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Study for a Portrait of Marguérite de Gas
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.: 1859–1860
Medium: Graphite on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Not signed
Dimensions: 32.5 × 23.5 cm (12 13/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1977.124
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Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 36, no. 2E2.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago,” July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 28-29, cat. 7 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.

Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]; sold, Georges Petit Gallery, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, Degas estate sale, lot 89b. Sold by Huguette Beres, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1977.

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