Like virtually all artists in Rome, Degas, who traveled to Italy frequently, tried his hand at depicting local inhabitants in their picturesque costumes. This work dates from the first year of Degas's formal art studies in Italy, 1856–57, when he was in his early twenties.
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Title:Italian Woman
Artist:Attributed to Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
Date:ca. 1856–57
Medium:Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
Dimensions:sheet: 8 1/4 x 4 1/8 in. (21 x 10.5 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Object Number:2003.20.5
Inscription: Verso, in graphite: [illegible inscription]
Marking: Verso, stamped in red ink: [the mark of the Degas atelier (Lugt 657) (although this drawing, specifically, is not listed in the posthumous sales of Degas's work)]
Edgar Degas (French)(his estate sale 1917); Schustermann, Paris(until 1935); Galerie Wildenstein(Purchased Sept 16, 1935); Wildenstein & Co., Inc.(sold March 28, 1951 to Haupt); Mr. and Mrs. Ira Haupt (American); Enid A. Haupt(by descent, from 1963 to 1983); Purchased by Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg (American)from his sister in 1983
Wildenstein & Co., Inc. "French XIX Century Drawings, Wildenstein, 1947-48," December 1947-January 1948.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," May 21–September 17, 1989.
Washington. National Gallery of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," May 6–August 5, 1990.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," August 16–November 11, 1990.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," June 4–October 13, 1991.
Brame and Reff 1984, no. 10
Camille Mauclair Degas. Edited by André Gloeckner, New York, 1941, p. 23, ill.
Loan Exhibition of Degas. Ex. cat., 7 April-14 May. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 1949, cat. no. 3, p. 39, ill.
Philippe Brame, Theodore Reff Degas et son oeuvre: A Supplement. New York, 1984, cat. no. 10, fig. no. 10, pp. 10-11, ill.
Colin B. Bailey, Joseph J. Rishel, Mark Rosenthal Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1989, pp. 12-13, 130-1, ill.
Susan Alyson Stein, Colin B. Bailey, Mark Rosenthal The Annenberg Collection: Masterpeices of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Asher Ethan Miller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Edition. New York, 2009, cat. no. 6, pp. 22-25 (ill., ill.
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