Bookshelves, Study for "Edmond Duranty"

Marking: Stamped in red ink, lower left with the mark of the Degas estate sale (Lugt 658); numbered in red ink, lower right: 19.51.9B
Verso: Stamped in red ink, lower right, with mark of Degas atelier (Lugt 657); stamped in ochre ink, lower right, with mark of MMA; numbered in blue pencil, with Durand-Ruel photo number: [Ph] 1019.

Atelier Degas(Vente II,1918: 242.1 to MMA)Lugt 657

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Recent Accessions," 1919.

Paris. Cabinet des dessins, Musée du Louvre. "Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso," October 25, 1973–January 7, 1974.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Degas in the Metropolitan," February 26–September 4, 1977.

National Gallery of Scotland. "Degas 1879," August 13, 1979–September 30, 1979.

Paris. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. "Degas," February 9–May 16, 1988.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Degas," September 27, 1988–January 8, 1989.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," October 1, 1997–January 11, 1998.

Paris-New York-Ottawa 1988, no. 199

Bryson Burroughs "Drawings by Degas." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 14, no. 5, New York, May 1919, pp. 115-116, ill.

James Bolivar Manson The Life and Work of Edgar Degas. London, 1927, p. 49.

Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 76, fig. no. 76, ill.

Denys Sutton "A 'Met.' Anthology." Apollo Magazine. vol. 82, Sept. 1965, fig. no. 1, p. 254, ill.

Jacques Fryszman "French Drawings from the Metropolitan Museum at the Louvre." The Burlington Magazine. 115, no. 849, December 1973, p. 837.

Jacob Bean, Linda Boyer Gillies, Cynthia Lambros, Roseline Bacou, Réunion des Musées Nationaux Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: de David à Picasso 54th Exposition de Cabinet des Dessins Musée du Louvre, 25 octobre 1973–7 janvier 1974. Paris, 1973, cat. no. 32, ill.

Charles S. Moffett Degas in the Metropolitan. Ex. cat., February 26-September 4, 1977: a complete checklist of works by Degas in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1977, cat. no. 28.

Ronald Pickvance Degas 1879: Paintings, pastels, drawings, prints and sculpture from around 100 years ago in the context of his earlier and later works Exh. cat., The National Galleries of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1979, cat. no. 53, fig. no. 153, p. 161, ill.

Jean Sutherland Boggs, Douglas Druick, Henri Loyrette, Michael Pantazzi, Gary Tinterow Degas. Ex. cat.: Paris, Ottawa, MMA, 1988-1989. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, National Museums of Canada, New York and Ottawa, 1988-89, cat. no. 199, p. 311, ill.

Ann Dumas, Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Gary Tinterow The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, fig. no. 370, pp. 271, 275, 28, ill.

Louis-Antoine Prat Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Somogy Editions d'Art, Paris, 2011, fig. no. 1272, p. 528, ill.