Signed, near right foot: Degas
Stamp, on base, rear right: 46/H Stamp, rear right: cire perdue/A.A. Hebrard [46 is Hebrard's serial number of the set of 72 bronzes he cast; H is no 8 of 22 casts of each of these models]
Bronze
Gift of Edward E. Rothman
71.78
Signed, near right foot: Degas
Stamp, on base, rear right: 46/H Stamp, rear right: cire perdue/A.A. Hebrard [46 is Hebrard's serial number of the set of 72 bronzes he cast; H is no 8 of 22 casts of each of these models]
Until 1963, (Paul Drey Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1963-1971, purchased by Edward E. Rothman [1899-1974]
1971-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Rewald, J. Degas, Works in Sculpture. New York, 1944, pp. 28, 134-135, no. 69 (ill.). von Matt, L. and J. Rewald. Degas, das Plastische Werk. Zurich, 1957, pp. 85-88, pl. 69 (ill.). Rewald, J. Degas, Works in Sculpture, a Complete Catalogue. New York, 1957, pp. 85-88, pl. 69 (ill.). Cassatt-Degas. Exh. cat., Midland Center for the Arts and Battle Creek Civic Art Center. Midland and Battle Creek, 1976, no. 26. Reff, Theodore. "The Degas of Detroit." Bulletin of the DIA 53, no. 1 (1974): pp. 26-44, pp. 26, 43 (ills.).
Edgar Degas; A. A. Hebrard, Seated Woman Wiping her Left Side, between 1900 and 1905, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edward E. Rothman, 71.78.