About the Artwork
Marguerite de Gas
between 1853 and 1854
Edgar Degas
1834-1917
French
Unknown
Graphite pencil on coral wove paper
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 8 inches (31.1 × 20.3 cm) Framed: 20 5/8 × 15 1/2 × 1 inches (52.4 × 39.4 × 2.5 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of John S. Newberry
65.293
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Markings
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Watermark, partial cursive upper case M [or W?, depending on orientation]
Provenance
Mlle. J. Fevre
Gimpel Fils (London, England)
1955-1965, John S. Newberry (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Boggs, Jean S. Portraits by Degas, Berkeley-Los Angeles, 1962 (pl. 7).
The John S. Newberry Collection: Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture Selected from the John Soughton Newberry Bequest and Gifts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 1965, pp. 28-29 (ill.).
Reff, Theodore. "The Degas of Detroit," Bulletin of the DIA 53, no. 1 (1974): p. 3 (ill.), p. 27.
Baas, Valerie, and Nancy Sojka. "The Restoration of Edgar Degas's Portait of Marguerite," Bulletin of the DIA 77, no. 1/2, (2003): pp. 58-9 (ill.).
Collectors Choice V. Sales cat., Gimpel Fils, London, Spring 1955, no. 12.
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Edgar Degas, Marguerite de Gas, between 1853 and 1854, graphite pencil on coral wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.293.
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