
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003075Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin (formerly Head of a Woman)
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Not signed
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) lower left in red]. Marcel Bing, Paris, to 1919. Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, by 1933 [Chicago 1933]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Exhibition history
Chicago, The Arts Club, "Modern Sculpture and Drawings by Sculptors," 1933, cat. 79, as Portrait of Mary Cassatt. Chicago, The Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago," November 4-25, 1938, cat 23, as Portrait of Mary Cassatt. Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, "Degas," August 13-September 30, 1979, cat. 66, as Head of a Woman. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, p. 110, cat. 48 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Martigny, Switzerland, Fondation Pierre Gianadda Martigny, "Degas," June 18-November 21, 1993.
Publications
Henri Rivière, Les Dessins de Degas (Paris, 1922), no. 92. Degas Drawings (New York, 1973), no. 77 (ill.). Ronald Pickvance, Degas 1879 (Edinburgh, 1979), pp. 60, no. 66. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 44, no. 2G3. Ronald Pickvance, Degas (Martigny, Switzerland, 1993), no. 6 (ill.). Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 40, 90 (ill.), and 109, pl. 19.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
- Date
- 1877/79
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24.1 × 22 cm (9 1/2 × 8 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Given in memory of Charles Barnett Goodspeed by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed
- Accession no.
- 1947.810
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