Woman Reading a Book

Edgar Degasc. 1879

Details

Title: Woman Reading a Book
Creator: Edgar Degas
Date Created: c. 1879
Physical Dimensions: overall: 48.9 x 31.8 cm (19 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.)
Provenance: (Third Degas sale, Paris, Georges Petit, 7-9 April 1919, no. 150.2); (_French Pastels and Drawings from Clouet to Degas_. Wildenstein, New York, February-March 1944, no. 113); (sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 July 1964, no. 62); Frank Perls; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mirisch, Beverly Hills, by 1966;[1] (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York); purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995. [1] See provenance information in exhibition catalogue, Jean Sutherland Boggs, _Drawings By Degas_. 1966, no. 86, p. 138.
Medium: charcoal and black chalk with stumping and erasing, heightened with white chalk, on blue wove paper

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