Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin) by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
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Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin)

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1879

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Degas Sale, Paris, Georges Petit, May 4-5, 1918, lot 116 (ill.); sold to Jacques Seligmann, Paris [according to Charles Durand-Ruel’s letter to Richard Brettell, dated May 10, 1983, copy in curatorial file]; sale, New York, American Art Association, January 27, 1921, lot 34 (ill.). Henry D. Hughes, Philadelphia [according to Lemoisne 1946]. Sale, New York, American Art Association, January 28, 1926, lot 171 (ill.). Reinhardt Gallery, New York by at least 1933; sold to Joseph Winterbotham (died 1954), Burlington, Vt. by 1933 [see Chicago 1933 and an inventory of Joseph Winterbotham collection accompanying the exhibition at The Chicago Arts Club in 1936, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, 4me Exposition de Peinture, April-May, 1879, cat. 59.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, French Art Since 1800, November 7–December 8, 1929, no cat.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 290.
  • The Arts Club of Chicago, Joseph Winterbotham Collection, December 9-31, 1936, cat. 11.
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Art in New England: Paintings, Drawings, Prints From Private Collections in New England, June 9-September 10, 1939, cat. 37.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces in Memory of Chauncey McCormick, January 15–February 20, 1955, cat. 13.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Degas in The Art Institute Chicago, July 19–September 23, 1984, cat. 47 (ill.).
  • Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Degas/Cassatt, May 11–October 5, 2014.

Literature

Published references

  • Etienne Charles, “Les Mots de Degas,” La Renaissance 1 (April 1918), p. 4 (ill.).
  • Camille Mauclair, Degas (New York, 1937), p. 64 (ill.).
  • P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvres, vol. 2 (Paris, 1946), no. 534 (ill.).
  • Marcel Guerin, ed., Degas Letters, trans. M. Kay (Oxford, 1947), pp. 60-61, no. 37.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 120.
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962), p. 52.
  • Theodore Reff, “Some Unpublished Letters of Degas,” Art Bulletin 50, 1 (1968), pp. 90-91.
  • Alfred Werner, Degas Pastels (New York, 1968), p. 22.
  • John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 267, 280 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces (Chicago, 1978), no. 62.
  • Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (New York, 1980), p. 16 (ill.).
  • The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 2 (1986), pp. 114–115 (ill.).

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