Marking: Stamped in red ink, lower right with the mark of the Degas esate sale (Lugt 658) Verso, stamped in red ink, upper right with the mark of the Degas atelier (Lugt 657); numbered in blue chalk, upper right: 1830 [underlined]; in blue chalk, lower right: Ph 1218 [double underlined]; numbered in black chalk, lower center: 2

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris,Degas Sale II,1918,lot.222.1&2(Fr2,700) to MMA2eme vente Degas, Paris, Dec. 11-13, 1918, no. 222, repr.

Brame & Reff 112; Paris-Ottawa-NY(MMA) 1988–89, no. 254

Bryson Burroughs "Drawings by Degas" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 14, no. 5, New York, May 1919, pp. 116-117.

The Life and Work of Edgar Degas. London, 1927, p. 48.

Charles S. Moffett Degas in the Metropolitan. , New York, 1977, cat. no. 40.

Philippe Brame, Theodore Reff Degas et son oeuvre: A Supplement. New York, 1984, cat. no. 112, pp. 122-123, ill.

Jean Sutherland Boggs, Douglas Druick, Henri Loyrette, Michael Pantazzi, Gary Tinterow Degas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, , New York and Ottawa, 1988-89, cat. no. 254, ill.

Ann Dumas, Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Gary Tinterow The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. New York, 1997, fig. no. 374, ill.

George T. M. Shackelford, Xavier Rey Degas and the Nude. Boston, 2012, fig. no. 127, 115, 117, 225, ill.