Signed, dated, and inscribed (upper left): Degas / Rome / 57
During the formative years that Degas spent working in Italy, 1856 to 1859, he made copies after Old Masters as well as studies of Italian men and women in local costume. This picture contains elements of both portraiture and genre painting.
The artist, Paris (until 1898); [Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, 1898–at least 1954; bought from the artist on May 24, 1898; stock no. 4681]; [Sam Salz, New York, until 1956; sold to Goldman]; Charles Goldman, New York (1956–d. 1966; life interest to his widow, Mathilda Schwartz Goldman, 1966–d. 2001)
Cambridge, Mass. Fogg Art Museum. "Degas: Loan Exhibition Arranged by Students," May 9–30, 1931, no. 1 (as "Old Italian Woman," lent by Durand-Ruel, Inc.).
New York. Durand-Ruel Galleries. "Exhibition of Paintings by Degas, Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, and Sisley prior to 1880," October 12–November 2, 1931, no. 11 (as "Vieille Italienne, Rome").
New York. Durand-Ruel. "Exhibition of Paintings by the Master Impressionists," October 15–November 10, 1934, no. 4 (as "Vieille Italienne Rome").
Baltimore Museum of Art. "Paintings by the Master Impressionists," November 27, 1935–January 1, 1936, no. 1 (as "Italian Woman," lent by Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York).
New York. Durand-Ruel. "Masterpieces by Degas," March 22–April 10, 1937, no. 15 (as "Vielle [sic] Femme").
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Works by Edgar Degas," February 5–March 9, 1947, no. 4 (as "Old Italian Woman," lent by Durand-Ruel, Inc., New York).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Degas in the Metropolitan," February 26–September 4, 1977, no. 2 (of paintings).
Athens. National Pinakothiki, Alexander Soutzos Museum. "Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Memories and Revivals of the Classical Spirit," August 15–November 15, 1979, no. 98.
Rome. Villa Medici. "Degas e l'Italia," December 1, 1984–February 10, 1985, no. 38.
Rome. Villa Medici. "D'Ingres à Degas. Les artistes français à Rome," March 7–June 29, 2003, no. 118.
New York. Dahesh Museum of Art. "French Artists in Rome: Ingres to Degas, 1803–1873," September 3–November 2, 2003, unnumbered cat. (as "An Old Italian Woman").
Georges Grappe. Edgar Degas. Berlin, [1908], ill. p. 8.
P.-A Lemoisne. Degas. Paris, 1912, p. 22.
Paul Lafond. Degas. 2, Paris, 1919, p. 1.
Henri Hertz. Degas. Paris, 1920, p. 71.
Julius Meier-Graefe. Degas. Munich, 1920, pp. 5–6, pl. 5 [English ed., 1923, p. 20, pl. V].
Henri Rivière. Les Dessins de Degas: Reproduits en fac-simile. Paris, 1922, unpaginated, under no. 1.
J. B. Manson. The Life and Work of Edgar Degas. London, 1927, p. 7.
Camille Mauclair. Degas. London, [1937], p. 166, pl. 62.
Marguerite Rebatet. Degas. Paris, 1944, pl. 2.
P[aul]. A[ndré]. Lemoisne. Degas et son œuvre. [reprint 1984]. Paris, [1946–49], vol. 1, p. 19; vol. 2, pp. 12–13, no. 29, ill.
Robert Rey. Degas. Paris, 1952, pl. 4.
Pierre Cabanne. Edgar Degas. Paris, [1957], pp. 19, 95, 101, no. 2, pl. 2 [English ed., 1958].
Phoebe Pool. Degas. London, 1963, p. 15.
Fiorella Minervino in L'opera completa di Degas. Milan, 1970, pp. 89–90, no. 70, ill.
Charles S. Moffett. Degas: Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1979, pp. 5–6, 15 n. 3, colorpl. 3.
Keith Roberts. Degas. rev., enl. ed. [1st ed., 1976]. Oxford, 1982, unpaginated, under no. 2.
Henri Loyrette. Degas e l'Italia. Exh. cat., Villa Medici. [Rome], 1984, pp. 100, 116–19, no. 38, ill. (color).
Renato Barilli in Il secondo '800 italiano: le poetiche del vero. Exh. cat., Palazzo Reale. Milan, 1988, ill. p. 21.
Henri Loyrette in Degas. Exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. New York, 1988, pp. 49, 69–70, fig. 31.
Henri Loyrette. Degas. Paris, 1991, pp. 104–5.
Jean Sutherland Boggs in Degas Portraits. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich. London, 1994, p. 87.
Gary Tinterow in Maestà di Roma, da Napoleone all'unità d'Italia: D'Ingres à Degas, les artistes français à Rome. Exh. cat., Villa Medici, Rome. [Milan], 2003, pp. 436–37, no. 118, ill. pp. 265 (color) and 436.
Ann Dumas in Degas: classico e moderno. Exh. cat., Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome. Milan, 2004, p. 47, fig. 3.
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