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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.680
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Woman Taken Unawares
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Femme Surprise
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1896-1911
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228409

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze with brown patina
Dimensions
40.6 x 29.6 x 19 cm (16 x 11 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on base: Degas
  • foundry mark: proper right rear of base, cast in: 42 [over] H / CIRE / PERDUE / A. A. HEBRARD
  • label: bottom of base, paper, ink, handwritten: [ ] 93
  • label: bottom of base, paper, ink, printed and typewritten: [printed:] TITLE [typewritten:] EDWARD M.M. WARBURG / [printed:] ARTIST: [typewritten:] 1109 FIFTH AVE. / Warburg 19
  • inscription: bottom of base, red paint: 3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward M. M. Warburg, New York, NY, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.680
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), no. 15, p. 100; repr. in b/w as fig. 51, p. 102

Exhibition History

  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005

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