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    Woman Seated in an Armchair
    Edgar Degas. Woman Seated in an Armchair, Modeled c. 1903, cast 1919–21. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001869

    Woman Seated in an Armchair

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Marked: 43 / HER.D; DEGAs; CIRE PERDUE A.HEBRARD [Foundry mark]

    Provenance

    Commissioned by the Degas heirs from the Hébrard Foundry, Paris, May 1918; René DeGas Family, Paris, by 1921 [see Czestochowski and Pingeot, p. 15]; DeGas-Musson Family, New Orleans, by 1949 [see source cited above, p. 205]; sold to Elkin and Albris Silberman Galleries, New York, January 19, 1950 [according to agreement of sale, January 19, 1950, DeGas-Musson Papers, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, copy in curatorial file; see also source cited above]; sold by Silberman Galleries to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

    Exhibition history

    Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Sculpture of the Twentieth Century," 11 October – 7 December 1952, Art Institute of Chicago, 22 January – 8 March 1953, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 29 April – 7 September 1953, no. 24. Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago," 19 July – 23 September 1984, no. 88. London, National Gallery, "Degas: Beyond Impressionism," 22 May – 26 August 1996, and the Art Institute of Chicago, 28 September 1996 – 5 January 1997, no. 62.

    Publications

    John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue (New York, 1944), pp. 28, 140, 142, no. 72. Art Institute of Chicago, "Recent Purchases and Gifts," Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin, 44, 4 (November 1950), n. p. New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., Edgar Degas, 1834–1917: Original Wax Sculptures (1955), no. 68. John Rewald, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works (New York, 1957), no. 72. Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), p. 144, cat. S60. Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas (Princeton, 1976), pp. 82, 109, figs. 133–34. Anne Pingeot, Degas: Sculptures (Paris, 1991), p. 181, no. 60. Sara Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas’ Bronzes," Apollo 142, 402 (August 1995), pp. 31–32, no. 43. Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes (Memphis, 2002), pp. 204–05, no. 43.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
    Date
    Modeled c. 1903, cast 1919–21
    Medium
    Bronze
    Dimensions
    31.8 × 19.7 × 33 cm (12 1/2 × 7 3/4 × 13 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    statuette
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Wirt D. Walker Endowment
    Accession no.
    1950.113

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