Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005893Italienne (Gaëta)
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper right, in graphite: "Mola di Gaëta"; center, right of figure, in graphite: "Roma"; lower right, in graphite: "ph 2349";verso, upper left, in graphite: "ph 2349/2"; lower right, in graphite: "41 x 56"
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) recto, in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2–4 1919, lot 68b, to Joseph Durand-Ruel (1862–1928), Paris; by descent to his daughter, Mme. d’Alayer (née Marie-Louise Durand-Ruel, 1897–1991); sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 22,1993, lot 3, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Paris, Jean-Claude et Jacques Bellier, "D’Ingres à nos jours: acquarelles, pastels, et dessins," 1960, cat. 17. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 104, cat. 69 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Daniel Wildenstein, Degas dans les collections françaises (Paris, Galerie de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1955), cat. 13, as Italienne. Villa Medici, Degas e l’Italia, exh. cat. (Rome, 1984-85), p. 255. Philippe Brame and Theodore Reff, Degas et son oeuvre: A Supplement (New York, 1984), p. 10. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 104, cat. 69 (ill.).
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
- 1856/57
- Medium
- Graphite, with stumping, on blue wove paper with blue fibers, perimeter-mounted on cream wove paper wrapped around millboard (touch of red chalk)
- Dimensions
- 45.6 × 31 cm (18 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.921
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