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PROPERTY FROM THE HEIRS OF MARQUET DE VASSELOT
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Danseuse au repos
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Danseuse au repos
signed 'Degas' (lower right); inscribed 'si le corsage descend plus bas dans le dos on voit' (centre right)
pastel and charcoal on paper
12 x 18 5/8 in. (30.7 x 47.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1879
Danseuse au repos
signed 'Degas' (lower right); inscribed 'si le corsage descend plus bas dans le dos on voit' (centre right)
pastel and charcoal on paper
12 x 18 5/8 in. (30.7 x 47.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1879
Provenance
Martin Le Roy, Paris.
M & Mme Marquet de Vasselot, Paris, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent to the present owners.
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. 543, p. 304 (illustrated p. 305).