Inscription: Recto: Upper right, in Degas's hand, in red chalk: Mme Lisle; in graphite: oeil clair et gris vert [eyes clear and gray-green] Verso: Numbered in blue chalk, upper left: Ph 1759 [number of atelier inventory photo taken at Durand-Ruel gallery in preparation for Degas Estate Sale in 1918]

Marking: Recto: stamped in red ink, lower left: mark of Degas's estate sale (Lugt 658); stamped in ochre ink, lower center: stamp of MMA; numbered in red ink, lower right (partially removed): 19.51.5 Verso: stamped in red ink, lower right: mark of Degas atelier (Lugt 657)

Atelier DegasSale II (1918) lot 237.2

Lemoisne II.266; Boggs p.25, pl.67

Bryson Burroughs "Drawings by Degas" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 14, no. 5, New York, May 1919, p. 115.

Paul-André Lemoisne Degas et son oeuvre. 4 vols + Suppl, Paris, 1946-1949, cat. no. 266, ill.

Great Drawings of All Time. Edited by Ira Moskowitz, III, New York, 1962, cat. no. 780, ill.

Jean Sutherland Boggs Portraits by Degas. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962, fig. no. pl. 67, p. 25, ill.

Jacques Fryszman "French Drawings from the Metropolitan Museum at the Louvre" Burlington Magazine. vol. 115, no. 849, London, 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 October, 1973-7 January 1974. Paris, 1973, cat. no. 28, pp. 33-34, ill.

Charles S. Moffett Degas in the Metropolitan. , New York, 1977, cat. no. 11.

Ann Dumas, Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Gary Tinterow The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. New York, 1997, fig. no. 372, pp. 271, 283, 28, ill.

Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. A Summary Catalogue. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, p. 128.