Art Institute of Chicago
Adoration of the Shepherds
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1860
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist [Lugt 657]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, Degas estate sale, lot 85c. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1969.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, p. 36, cat. 10 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
Literature
Published references
- Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 36, no. 2E3.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), no. 517 (ill.).
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