Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004342Madame Lisle and Madame Loubens
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Provenance
Estate of the artist [Lugt 658]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 11-13, 1919, lot 337. Sold by Patrick de Bayser, Paris, to Mrs. Eliot Hodgkin [a letter from Eliot Hodgkin of October 1982 in curatorial file]; Mrs. Eliot Hodgkin, Chelsea; sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 30, 1977, lot 106, to the Art Institute.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago" July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 43-45, cat. 14 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Publications
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas (Berkeley, 1962), pp. 25, 27, and 91 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 38-39, no. 2E9.
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
- 1869/72
- Medium
- Graphite on tan wove paper, squared in black crayon, laid down on cream Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- 28.4 × 32 cm (11 3/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Henry C. Woods and Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Fund Income
- Accession no.
- 1977.311
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