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Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin (formerly Head of a Woman)
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1877/79
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) lower left in red]. Marcel Bing, Paris, to 1919. Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, by 1933 [Chicago 1933]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, The Arts Club, "Modern Sculpture and Drawings by Sculptors," 1933, cat. 79, as Portrait of Mary Cassatt.
- Chicago, The Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago," November 4-25, 1938, cat 23, as Portrait of Mary Cassatt.
- Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, "Degas," August 13-September 30, 1979, cat. 66, as Head of a Woman.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, p. 110, cat. 48 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
- Martigny, Switzerland, Fondation Pierre Gianadda Martigny, "Degas," June 18-November 21, 1993.
Literature
Published references
- Henri Rivière, Les Dessins de Degas (Paris, 1922), no. 92.
- Degas Drawings (New York, 1973), no. 77 (ill.).
- Ronald Pickvance, Degas 1879 (Edinburgh, 1979), pp. 60, no. 66.
- Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 44, no. 2G3.
- Ronald Pickvance, Degas (Martigny, Switzerland, 1993), no. 6 (ill.).
- Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 40, 90 (ill.), and 109, pl. 19.
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