©Fogg Art Museum, Cambrigde

Seated woman - Study for woman seated beside a vase of flowers

[Femme assise - Etude pour Femme assise près d'un vase de fleurs]

MS : 3226
Museum
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge - Massachusetts - Etats-Unis
Inv. 1965. 253

The Artwork

Dimensions
35.5 × 23.4 cm - 14 × 9 3/16 in.
Period
1865
Medium
Mine de plomb
Support
Papier crème
Signature
et daté en bas à droite : Degas 1865

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Vente Degas, 1918, I, n° 312 (repr.) - Paul Rosenberg, Paris - Paul J. Sachs, 1927 - Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1965  [Don Sachs].

Exhibitions

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1929, French Painting of the 19th & 20th Centuries, n° 34, repr. p.  25 New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co., 1930,  Exhibition of Drawings by Degas,  n° 19Saint-Louis, City Art Museum, 1932, Drawings by Degas  – Pittsburgh, Junior League, 1933-1934,  An Exhibition of Old-Master Drawings for the Benefit of Public Health Nursing Milk and Emergency Fund, n° 31  – Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1935, Independent Painters of 19th Century Paris, n° 120  – Philadelphie, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1936, Degas, n° 39 (repr.)  – Paris, musée de l’Orangerie, 1937, Degas, n° 73 - Brooklyn, Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1939, Great Modern French, n° 11 (repr. en couv.)  – Washington, Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1940,  Great Modern Drawings – Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1941, Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, n° 20 – New York, Buchholz Gallery, 1945, Edgar Degas Bronzes, Drawings, n° 58 Farnsworth Art Museum, Wellesley College, 1946, Drawings by Degas – Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1947, Works by Edgar Degas, n° 62 (repr.)  – Washington, Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1947, Loan Exhibition of Drawings & Pastels by Edgar Degas, n° 31New York, Century Club, 1947, Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collection Paul J. Sachs) – Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, 1948,  Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collection  Paul J. Sachs), n°  10  – Philadelphie, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, The Diamond Jubilee -  Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1952, French Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum -  Paris, musée de l’Orangerie, 1955,  De David à Toulouse-Lautrec : chefs d'oeuvre des collections américaines, n° 69 – San Antonio,  The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, 1955, Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture by Edgar Degas – Waterville, Colby College, 1956, An Exhibition of Drawings,  n° 68  – Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1961, Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen,  n° 8  – Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1965-1967,  Memorial Exhibition : Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, n° 74 (repr.)  – New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1987,  Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University – Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989, Degas, n° 61, repr. p. 116 – Tokyo, Yamagushi, 1990, The Maurice Wertheim Collection and Selected Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings and Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum – Dumas, Brenneman, Cat. exp. Atlanta, Minnepaolis, 2000-2001, Degas and America. The Early Collectors, cat. 17, repr. p. 116.

Bibliography

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