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A seated woman in traditional dress

At center a young woman sits facing the viewer, folding her hands in her lap and smiling with her eyes cast downward. She wears traditional Italian peasant dress with a white top with flowing sleeves, brightly colored embroidered bodice, and a bright blue skirt. She wears a red necklace and earrings and a white head scarf. Lavender and bright red drapery cover the surface on which she sits. Behind her we see an ornately carved wall at left and the base of a stone column at right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.155
People
Attributed to Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Italian Girl
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1856
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297270

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper, laid down overall to off-white wove paper
Dimensions
15.5 × 13.6 cm (6 1/8 × 5 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., reddish ink: Rome 1856

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Wildenstein & Company, New York, 1949] [1]. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hazen, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1959

Notes
[1] Wildenstein's ownership is derived from the 1949 exhibition

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hazen
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.155
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • A loan exhibition of Degas for the benefit of the New York Infirmary, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, NY, 1949), no. 3, repr.
  • "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, July-September 1960", The Art Quarterly (Winter 1960), vol. XXIII, no. 4, ill. p. 415, no. 2 (top)
  • French Watercolors, 1760-1860, exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI, 1965), no. 71, repr.
  • Theodore Reff and Philippe Brame, Degas et son Oeuvre: a Supplement, Garland Publishers, Inc. (New York, NY and London, England, 1984), no. 9, repr.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), cat. no. 33, fig. 65

Exhibition History

  • A loan exhibition of Degas for the benefit of the New York Infirmary, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 04/06/1949 - 05/14/1949
  • French Watercolors, 1760-1860, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 09/29/1965 - 10/24/1965
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1973, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 12/18/1972 - 04/25/1973

Verification Level

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