The Millinery Shop

1. Sold by the artist to Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris on February 22, 1913 for 50,000 francs [see Durand-Ruel stock no. 10253; this and the following information according to Paris 1988]; sent to Durand-Ruel Gallery in New York, 1917; sold to Mrs. Lewis Larned (Annie Swan) Coburn (died 1932), Chicago on January 19, 1932 for $36,000 or $35,000 [see Durand-Ruel stock no. 4114; the date 1932 given in the Durand-Ruel stockbook contradicts a loan receipt, dated January 23, 1930, for a “Millinery Shop, 1882” from Mrs. L.L. Coburn to the Art Institute of Chicago, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. L.L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Water Colors, April 6, 1932-October 9, 1932, cat. 9 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 286, pl. 53.
• Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, Edgar Degas, November 28-Deceber 18, 1933, cat. 8 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 202.
• Toledo, Ohio, Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, November 1934, cat. 1.
• Springfield, Mass., Museum of Art, French Painting, Cézanne to the Present, December 1935-January 1936, cat. 1.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Degas, November-December 1936, cat. 40 (ill.).
• Worcester, Mass., Worcester Art Museum, The Art of The Third Republic, February-March 1941, cat. 4 (ill. on cover).
• Cleveland Museum of Art, The Works of Edgar Degas, February 5-March 9, 1947, cat. 38 (ill.).
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Painting, November 4, 1950-February 11, 1951, cat. 74 (ill.).
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Edgar Degas: The Reluctant Impressionist, June 21-September 1, 1974, cat. 20 (ill.).
• Richmond, Va., The Virginia Museum, Degas, May 23-July 9, 1978, cat. 14 (ill.).

• Daniel Catton Rich, “Bequest of Mrs. L. L. Coburn,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 26, 5 (1932), p. 69 (ill.).
• The Fine Arts 19 (June 1932), p. 23 (ill.).
• Eleanor Jewett, “Noted Private Art Collection on Exhibition: Antiquarians Sponsor Institute Show,” Chicago Tribune (April 6, 1932).
• Smith College Museum of Art Bulletin 15 (June 1934), p. 15 (ill.).
• Agnes Mongan, “Degas As Seen in American Collections,” Burlington Magazine 72 (1938), pp. 297 (ill.), 302.
• George Slocombe, “Artist as Misanthrope,” Coronet 3, 6 (April 1938), p. 22 (ill.).
• R. Shoolman and C. E. Slatkin, The Enjoyment of Art in America (Philadelphia, 1942), pl. 543.
• An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1945), pp. 36 (ill.), 37.
• Hans Huth, “Impressionism Comes to America,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts ser. 6, vol. 29 (1946), pp. 234, fig. 8.
• Paul Andre Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre vol. 3 (Paris, 1946), cat. 832 (ill.).
• F. Fels, L’Art Vivant de 1900 a Nos Jours (Geneva, 1950), p. 98 (ill.).
• Daniel Catton Rich, “Midwest Art Capital,” Town and Country (March 1951), p. 75 (ill.).

Ballet at the Paris Opéra

Art Institute of Chicago

Jockey

Art Institute of Chicago

Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys

Art Institute of Chicago

Yellow Dancers (In the Wings)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Star

Art Institute of Chicago

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

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

Art Institute of Chicago

Café Singer

Art Institute of Chicago

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