Henri Degas and His Niece Lucie Degas (The Artist's Uncle and Cousin)

1. By descent in the Degas family, presumably to the sitter, Lucie Degas (died 1909), later Marchesa Eduardo Guerrero de Balde, Naples [according to “Les Degas de Naples” (1926) and Paris-Ottawa-New York 1988]; probably by descent to her daughter, Anna Guerrero de Balde, later Signora Marco or Mario Bozzi, Naples [according to Raimondi 1958, Quadro X, and Paris-Ottawa-New York 1988]; by family descent; sold to Wildenstein and Company, New York, November 1926 [according to Art News (1926)]. Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn (died 1932), Chicago, by at least 1927 [Manson 1927]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Venice, Pavillon de France, La XV Esposizione Internazionale d’arte della città di Venezia, April-October 1926, probably no. 16 or 1525.
• Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, March 6-April 6, 1929, no. 34.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Water Colors, April 6-October 9, 1932, no. 6.
• Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, Edgar Degas: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Sculpture, November 28-December 18, 1933, no. 17.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections, June 1-November 1, 1933, no. 289.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, no. 204.
• Saint Louis, City Art Museum, Paintings by French Impressionists, April-May 1934, no cat.
• New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Degas, November 5-December 1, 1934, no. 1.
• Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Survey of French Painting, April 2-May 14, 1936, no. 10.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Degas, November 7-December 7, 1936, no. 24.
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Degas' Portraits of His Family and Friends, March 6-28, 1948, no cat no.
• New York, Wildenstein and Company, A Loan Exhibition of Degas for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, April 7-May 14, 1949, no. 35.

• Elio Forzi, “Comment M. Vittorio Pica a suppléé à la carence de la France: Quatre Degas inconnus,” in Comœdia (May 10, 1926).
• “Les Degas de Naples,” in Bulletin de la Vie Artistique 7, 10 (1926), pp. 155-6.
• Ugo Nebbia, La Quindicesima Esposizione d’Arte a Venezia (Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d’Arti Grafiche, 1926), p. 329, ill. opp. p. 326.
• André Dezarrois, “Art Contemporain: la XVe exposition internationale de Venise,” in La Revue de l’Art ancien et moderne 50, 277 (June 1926), p. 45 (ill.).
• “Double Portrait by Edgar Degas Coming Here,” in Art News 25, 2 (1926), pp. 1-2 (ill.).
• “Edgar Degas: Vater und Tochter,” in Kunst und Künstler 25, 1 (1927), p. 40 (ill.).
• J[ames] B[olivar] Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London: The Studio, Limited, 1927), pp. 11-2, 48, pl. 5.
• Albert Franz Cochrane, “Fogg Museum Stages Magnificent Exhibition of French Art,” in Boston Evening Transcript (March 9, 1929).
• C. J. Bulliet, “Fogg Museum Joins in Fight on Fog [Pardon!],” in Chicago Evening Post (April 16, 1929).
• Daniel Catton Rich, “A Family Portrait of Degas,” in Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 23, 8 (1929), cover, pp. 125-7 (ill.).
• Wilhelm Hausenstein, “Der Geist des Edgar Degas,” in Pantheon 7 (1931), p. 162 (ill.).
• Daniel Catton Rich, “The Bequest of Mrs. L. L. Coburn,” in Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 26, 6 (1932), p. 68.

Dancers Practicing at the Barre

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Artist's Cousin, Probably Mrs. William Bell (Mathilde Musson, 1841–1878)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Édouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Little Denise (Denise Maréchal, later Madame Georges Béart, 1883–1956)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woman Ironing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ballet at the Paris Opéra

Art Institute of Chicago

The Millinery Shop

Art Institute of Chicago

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