Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004338Study for a Portrait of Marguérite de Gas
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Not signed
Provenance
Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]; sold, Georges Petit Gallery, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, Degas estate sale, lot 89b. Sold by Huguette Beres, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1977.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 28-29, cat. 7 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Publications
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 36, no. 2E2.
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
- 1859/60
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 32.5 × 23.5 cm (12 13/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1977.124
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