©Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge

Half-length study of a woman

[Etude de femme à mi-corps]

MS : 3197
Museum
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge - Massachusetts - Etats-Unis
Inv. 1940.2

The Artwork

Dimensions
57.5 × 50.8 cm - 22 5/8 × 20 in.
Period
Circa 1890
Medium
Fusain et pastel
Support
Papier jaune vert
Signature
vente Degas en bas à droite

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Vente Degas, 1918, II, n° 126 (repr.) - [Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York] - Cambridge,  Fogg Art Museum - Harvard University, 1940.

Exhibitions

New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co., 1930, Exhibition of Drawings by Degas - Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1931, Degas - Saint-Louis, City Art Museum, 1932, Drawings by Degas - Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, 1933, Edgar Degas : Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Sculpture - Bloomington, Indiana University Museum, 1942, Nineteenth-Century French Paintings (?) - New York, Buchholz Gallery, 1945, Edgar Degas Bronzes, Drawings, Pastels - Wellesley, Farnsworth Art Museum (aujourd'hui Davis Museum and Cultural Center), 1946,  Drawings by Degas - Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museum-Arthur M. Sackler Museum,  2005, Degas at Harvard.

Bibliography

Carol Rothschild, "Recent Museum Acquisitions", Parnassus, College Art Association of America, mai 1940, vol. 12, n° 5, pp. 46-50, 56, p. 48 - Agnes Mongan, Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, 1940, vol. 1, cat. n° 671, fig. 347 - Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, 1946-1949, vol. III, n° 798 (repr.) - Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas, 1962, pl. 131 - Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, 1970 [1974 en français], fig. 627 - Pia Desantis, "Study of the Five Degas Pastels in the Fogg Art Museum" (thèse, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, juillet 1985, non publiée,  pp. 1-94 - Marjorie B. Cohn, Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, Cat. exp. Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University, Cambridge/New Haven, 2005, cat. n° 24, fig. 32 (couleur), pp. 64, 75 note 116 - Catalogue vente Degas, 1918, II, n° 126 (repr.) - Hannelore Fischer, Alexandra von dem Knesebeck, "Paris bezauberte mich..." Käthe Kollwitz und die französische Moderne, Cat. exp. Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne, 2010, p. 125, repr. p. 125, pl. 121.

Last updated : 11/02/2026