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Edgar Degas

Head of a Roman Girl

1855

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Edgar Degas

Head of a Roman Girl

1855

Physical Qualities Black chalk with stumping and traces of white chalk, Sheet: 385 x 260 mm. (15 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.12.457
Head of a young girl looking back over her shoulder. Distinctive, loose, linen (?) head covering.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by trade, 1955 (for Monet ex-The Baltimore Museum of Art 1950.265 and Gauguin ex-The Baltimore Museum of Art 1950.214); Thannhauser Galleries, Paris, 1929; Maurice Exsteens, Paris; Gustave Pellet, Paris; René de Gas.
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
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Carol A. Nathanson and Edward J. Olszewski, 'Degas's Angel of the Apocolypse', The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Oct. 1980), p. 244, fig. no. 5, ill. p. 245. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, 1967, p. 72, no. 176.
G. Jedlicka, 'Galerie und Sammler', Zurich: Ed. Galerie Aktuaryus, 1935, p. 473, no. 41, reproduced on cover.
Brenda Richardson, 'Dr Claribel & Miss Etta', Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, Notes, no. 50, p. 160.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. p. 188-89, ill.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 49, ill

Inscribed: lower right in black crayon: "Rome"

Artist

Edgar Degas

1833–1916

French, 1834-1917
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