©The Burrell Collection-Glasgow Museums

Woman looking through opera glasses

[Femme regardant aux jumelles]

MS : 89
Museum
Burrell Collection - Glasgow Museums, Glasgow - Royaume-Uni
Inv. 35.239

The Artwork
Dimensions
31 × 19 cm - 12 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.
Period
Circa 1881
Medium
Peinture à l'essence
Support
Toile
Lemoisne
I-268, p. 129
Annotation
au dos : Degas vers 1865

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Edmond Duranty, Paris - Vente Duranty, Paris-Drouot, 28 janvier 1881, n° 16 (?) - Alex Reid & Lefevre, Glasgow ? - Vente Christie's, Londres, 14 juin 1902, n° 8 - William Burrell, Lanark (Ecosse) - Glasgow, The Burrell Collection, 1944.

Exhibitions

Kirkcaldy, Museum and Art Gallery, 1925, n° 31 - Londres, Tate Gallery, 1934, Loan Exhibition - Glasgow, Mc Lellan Galleries, 1949, n° 536 - Glasgow, Mc Lellan Galleries, 1950, n° 26 - Londres, Reid & Lefevre, 1967, n° 22 - Londres, Hayward Gallery, 1975, n° 53 (repr.) - Londres, Arts Council, 1977-1978, n° 38 (repr.) -  Edimbourg, National Gallery of Scotland, 1979, Degas 1879,  n° 2, repr. p. 10 - Manchester, Cambridge, 1987, The Private Degas, n° 91, repr. p. 70 -  Edimbourg, National Gallery Complex, 2008, n° 83, repr. p. 68 - Marseille, musée Cantini, 2018, (n.n.), repr. p. 91 - Melbourne, Houston, 2016-2017, Degas : A New Vision, (n.n.), repr. p. 55 - Glasgow, The Burrell Collection, 2024, Discovering Degas : Collecting in the Time of William Burrell, n° 8, repr. p. 52.

Bibliography

Lemoisne, 1946-1949, I, n° 268, repr. p. 129 - François Mathey, Les impressionnistes et leur temps, 1959 (repr.) - Wells, "Who was Degas's Lyda ?", Apollo, février 1972, n° 4, pp. 129-134, repr. p. 131 - Pickvance, Cat. exp. National Gallery of Scotland, Edimbourg, 1979, n° 2, p. 10 - Apollo, octobre 1983, pp. 322-324 - Vainker, Apollo, octobre 1983, pp. 322-329 - Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989, fig. 131, repr. p. 263 - Armstrong, 1991, Odd Man Out, fig. 30, repr. p. 40 - Kendall, Pollock, Dealing with Degas, 1992, fig. 24, repr. p. 110 - Hamilton, Cat. exp. National Gallery, Londres, 2017-2018, p. 44.

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