Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
PROPERTY FROM THE HEIRS OF MARQUET DE VASSELOT
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Danseuse tirant son maillot (La précaution)

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Danseuse tirant son maillot (La précaution)
signed 'Degas' (lower right)
pastel and charcoal on paper
10½ x 11¾ in. (26.8 x 29.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1882-1885
Provenance
Georges Charpentier, Paris; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 April 1907, lot 34.
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (no. 15935).
Collection Bouglé, Paris.
Martin Le Roy, Paris.
M & Mme Marquet de Vasselot, Paris, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. II, Peintures et pastels 1853-1882, Paris, 1946, no. 716, p. 406 (illustrated p. 407).

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