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Title:Madame Lisle
Artist:Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
Date:ca. 1866–70
Medium:Charcoal and pastel with red, black, and white chalk on beige wove paper
Dimensions:sheet: 8 9/16 x 10 1/4 in. (21.7 x 26 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number:19.51.5
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; Vendor: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris
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.
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Lemoisne II.266; Boggs p.25, pl.67
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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, p. 115.
Paul-André Lemoisne Degas et son oeuvre. 4 vols + Suppl, Paris, 1946-1949, cat. no. 266, ill.
Paul-André Lemoisne P[aul]. A[ndré]. Lemoisne Degas et son œuvre. Galerie Brame P. Brame et C. M. de Hauke, [reprint 1984]. Paris, [1946–49].
Jean Sutherland Boggs Portraits by Degas. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962, fig. no. pl. 67, p. 25, ill.
Jean Sutherland Boggs Portraits by Degas. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1962.
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Fiorella Minervino L'opera completa di Degas. Rizzoli, Milan, 1970.
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. 28, pp. 33-34, 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. 11.
Richard R. Brettell, Richard R. Brettell, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Art Institute of Chicago Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1984.
Barbara Ehrlich White Impressionists Side by Side: Their Friendships, Rivalries, and Artistic Exchanges. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996, p. 42, ill.
Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. A Summary Catalogue. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, p. 128.
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. 372, pp. 271, 283, 28, ill.
Susan Alyson Stein, Edgar Degas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.
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