Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005800Landscape with Smokestacks
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Stamped with estate stamp, lower left, in red ink
Provenance
Estate of the artist, from 1917 [stamp (Lugt 658), lower left in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2–4 1919, lot 45. Nunes et Fiquet, Paris [Lemoisne 1946]. L. Wolff, Hamburg [Paris 1932 auc. cat.]. Unidentified private collector, to 1932 [Although the 1932 auction included the Simon and Silberberg collections, it remains unclear who owned this specific lot. It could have been Simon, Silberberg, or an unknown third party.]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 9, 1932, lot 5, to Dr. Helmut Lutjens, the Director of the Amsterdam branch of Paul Cassirer, for Friedrich and Louise Gutmann, Heemstede, Holland [annotated sale catalogue obtained from Walter Feilchenfeldt]; sent by Friedrich Gutmann to Paul Graupe, Paris, 1939; sent to the Wacker-Bondy storage facility on the Boulevard Raspail, by 1945 [letter from Arthur Goldschmidt of Paul Graupe to Friedrich Gutmann]. Hans Wendland, Paris, to his brother-in-law, Hans Fritz Fankhauser, Basel [Janis 1968]; sold by Hans Fritz Fankhauser to Emile Wolf, New York, 1951 [Janis 1968]; sold by Emile Wolf, through Margo Pollins Schab, New York, to Daniel Searle, Winnetka, Ill., 1987; given by Daniel Searle and sold by the Goodman (formerly Gutmann) family to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
New York, Finch College Museum, “French Landscape Paintings from Four Centuries,” October 20, 1965-January 9, 1966, cat. 39. Cambridge, Mass, Fogg Art Museum, “Degas Monotypes,” April 25-June 14, 1968, n.p., cat. 68 (ill.), checklist no. 277 (ill.). Providence, R.I., Rhode Island School of Design, The Museum of Art, “From the Age of David to the Age of Picasso: French Drawings from a Private Collection," 1984, pp. 34-36, cat. 11 (ill.). New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Degas Landscapes," January 21-April 3, 1994, cat. 40, fig. 130; traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 24-July 3, 1994. Vienna, Albertina, "Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings", February 9 - May 13, 2012, p. 113, 128, pl. 46, cat. by Christopher Lloyd. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage", July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, first half of installation, no cat.
Publications
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III (Paris, 1946), p. 614, no. 1054 (ill.). Finch College Museum of Art, French Landscape Painters from Four Centuries (New York, 1966), no. 39 Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin, Edgar Degas: gravures et monotypes (Paris, 1973), p. LXVIII. Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin, Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes (New York, 1974), p. 283. Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'œuvre peint de Degas (Paris 1974), pp.129, no. 966 (ill.). Deborah J. Johnson and Eric M. Zafran, From the Age of David to the Age of Picasso: French Drawings from a Private Collection (Providence, 1984), pp. 34-36, no. 11 Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, trans. by Simone Darses (Paris, 1988), p. 129, no. 966 (ill.). Howard Trienens, Landscape With Smokestacks: The Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas (Evanston, Ill., 2000). Nancy H. Yeide, Konstantin Akinsha, Amy L. Walsh, The AAM Guide to Provenance Research (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 2001), pp. 105-107 (ill.). Simon Goodman, The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis (Scribner, 2015). Jodi Hauptman, et. al, A Strange New Beauty, (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016), p.102-103.
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
- c. 1890
- Medium
- Pastel, over monotype, on textured cream wove paper, edge-mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 31.7 × 41.6 cm (12 1/2 × 16 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased from the collection of Friedrich and Louise Gutmann, and gift of Daniel C. Searle
- Accession no.
- 1998.915
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