VIOLINIST AND YOUNG WOMAN
“The figures are meticulously rendered but the canvas is unfinished at the lower edge. Degas often returned to paintings — sometimes after decades — but not this one. Perhaps he considered it “finished” after all.”
Graham W. J. Beal, Director, President and CEO
- Date
- c. 1871
- Medium
- Oil and crayon on canvas
- Dimensions
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18 1/4 x 22 in.
46.4 x 55.9 cm
framed: 26 1/4 x 30 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.
66.7 x 77.2 x 8.9 cm
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
- Accession No.
- 70.167
- Provenance
- Paris, Collection of the Artist, Edgar Degas;
Paris, auction Atelier E. Degas (Galerie Georges Petit) 6 May, 1918 (1st sale), lot. 49,
repr.;
Paris, Collection Jacques Seligmann;
New York, auction J. Seligmann (American Art Association) 27 Jan. 1921, lot 25, repr.,bought by J. H. Whittemore for $7,000.00.
Naugatuck, Long Island, NY, Collection J. Harris Whittemore (1921-1936) from whom
purchased by Durand-Ruel on May 4, 1936;
New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery (dealer-1936), from whom purchased by R. H. Tannahill;
Grosse Pointe Farms, Collection Robert H. Tannahill, by whom bequeathed to the DIA.
- Keywords
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canvas, oil, oil crayon, paint, pastel crayon, crayon, three quarter length, portrait, music, double portrait
Published References
Field, H. E., "Edgar Degas, Painter", The Arts, , vol. 1, no. 2, Jan., 1921, pp. 8- , repr.
Jamot, P., Degas, Paris, 1924, p. 138, pl. 24 (c. 1872)
Hausenstein, W., "Der Geist des Edgar Degas", Pantheon, , vol. 7, April, 1931, pp. 161-166, esp. p. 164.
New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, "Degas", 1934, cat. 10 (lent by the J. H. Whittemore Company of Naugatuck).
Morsell, M., "Marie Harriman Holds Loan Exhibit of Degas' Early Art", Art News, vol. 33, no. 7, Nov. 17, 1934, p. 16.
Lemoisne, P. A., Degas et son Oeuvre, Paris, 1946-1949, vol. 2, p. 134, no. 274, repr. (c. 1870-72) vol. 4, p. 94.
Boggs, J. S., Portraits by Degas, Berkeley, 1962, p. 33, pl. 75.
Detroit, DIA, ¦The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to The Detroit Institute of Arts,¦ (cat. accompanying the exh. "A Collector's Treasure: The Tannahill Bequest,") 1970,
pp. 9, 20, 27, repr.
DIA Handbook, 1971, p. 157.
Reff, T., "Works by Degas in the Detroit Institute of Arts", DIA Bulletin, vol. 53, no. 1, 1974, pp. 2, 10, 32-33, cat. 8, repr. (c. 1870-72)
Grosse Pointe, MI, Grosse Pointe War Memorial, "Robert Hudson Tannahill Memorial Exhibition", Sept. 7-18, 1978, p. 23.
Reff, T., "Degas: A Master among Masters" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, , vol. 34, no. 4, Spring, 1977, pp. 2-48, esp. pp. 16-17, repr.
Detroit, DIA, 100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts, New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1985, pp. 118-119, repr.
Kendall, Richard, ed, Degas by Himself, London, 1987, p. 128, repr.
Martinez, B. & Block, J., Visual Forces; an Introduction to Design, Englewood Cliffs, 198 , p. 54, repr.
Paris, Grand Palais--Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada--New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Degas", Feb. 1988-Jan. 1989, pp 178-179, cat. 110, repr.
Zurich, Kunsthaus--Tübingen, Kunsthalle, "Degas Portraits", Dec. 1994-June, 1995, pp. 26, 283, 286, 343, cat. 111, repr. (dated c.1872).
Shackelford, G., "Degas Portraits." ¦Apollo,¦ v. 142, no. 402, August, 1995, pp. 78-80, fig. 4.
Toyota (Japan), Municipal Museum of Art, "Message 1995" (exh. organized by DIA and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art), Nov., 1995-Jan., 1996, pp. 32, 198, cat. 1,
repr. (as 1872).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," 1997-98, (exh. cat. by A. Dumas, C. Ives, S. Stein and G. Tinterow), p. 83, fig. 93, listed as Atelier Sale I: 49.
Washington, D. C., The Phillips Collection, "Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts", 2000-2001, pp. 82, 139, repr.
Sogo Museum of Art-- Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art--Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art--Fukui Fine Arts Museum--Yawatahama Citizen Gallery, "Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art," 2001, pp. 32, 52, no. 4, color repro. p. 53 (in Japanese, entry by A. Marcereau on file).