©Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge

Young woman leaning against a chair

[Jeune femme adossée à une chaise]

MS : 3204
Museum
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge - Massachusetts - Etats-Unis
Inv. 1965.252

The Artwork

Dimensions
23.6 × 48.3 cm - 9 5/16 × 19 in.
Period
Circa 1868
Medium
Crayon graphite
Support
Papier crème
Stamp
Vente Degas (en bas à gauche)

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Vente Degas, 1919, IV, n° 136.c (repr.) - Marcel Bing, Paris - Alfred Vignier, Paris - Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge,  Fogg Art Museum, 1965  [Don Sachs].

Exhibitions

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1929, French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries - Saint Louis, City Art Museum, 1932, Drawings by Degas - Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, 1933, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Sculpture - Philadelphie, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1936, Degas - Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum, 1939, Great Modern French Drawings - Detroit Institute of Arts, 1941Masterpieces 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 - Wellesley, Farnsworth Art Museum (aujourd'hui Davis Museum and Cultural Center), 1946,  Drawings by Degas - New York, Century Club, 1947, Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collection Paul J. Sachs) - French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University - New York, Wildenstein & Cie., 1960, Degas : Loan exhibition for the Benefit of the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, n° 75 - Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1961, Ingres and Degas : Two Classical Draughtsmen - Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 2005, Degas at Harvard, n° 37, fig. 67, repr. p. 112.

Bibliography

Henri Rivière, Les Dessins de Degas,1922-1923, pl. 55 - Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Cat. exp. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1929, n° 23 - Degas, 1834-1917, Cat. exp.  Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphie, 1936, n° 63 (repr.) - Agnes Mongan, Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, 1940, vol. 1, cat. n° 662, fig. 338 - Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, 1941, checklist n° 15 - Agnes Mongan, "Find the Artist", Art News, mars 1951, vol. 50, p. 20 - Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Cat. exp.  Detroit Institute of Arts, 1951,  cat. n° 32, n.p. (repr.) - Degas : Loan exhibition for the benefit of the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Cat. exp.  Wildenstein & Cie., New York, 1960, n° 75 - Ingres and Degas : Two Classical Draughtsmen, Cat. exp. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1961, n° 18 - Degas' drawings, New York, 1973, pl. 12 - Cohn, Boggs,  Cat. exp. Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 2005, Degas at Harvard, n° 37, fig. 67, repr. p. 112.

Last updated : 24/01/2026