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L'Écolière (Femme marchant dans la rue)
Details
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
L'Écolière (Femme marchant dans la rue)
signed, numbered and stamped with the foundry mark 'Degas (2) CIRE PERDUE A.A. HEBRARD' (on top of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.)
Conceived circa 1880-1881; this example cast in bronze by Hébrard in 1956
red-painted Ford Inventory No. D-25 to base
L'Écolière (Femme marchant dans la rue)
signed, numbered and stamped with the foundry mark 'Degas (2) CIRE PERDUE A.A. HEBRARD' (on top of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.)
Conceived circa 1880-1881; this example cast in bronze by Hébrard in 1956
red-painted Ford Inventory No. D-25 to base
Provenance
Mme Nelly Hébrard, Paris.
Knoedler & Co., New York (no. A6527), by whom acquired from the above in December 1956.
Mr Henry Ford II, Grosse Pointe Farms, Palm Beach & London, by whom acquired from the above in February 1957, and thence by descent.
Knoedler & Co., New York (no. A6527), by whom acquired from the above in December 1956.
Mr Henry Ford II, Grosse Pointe Farms, Palm Beach & London, by whom acquired from the above in February 1957, and thence by descent.
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LXXIV, p. 209 (other casts illustrated pp. 186-187).
S. Campbell, 'Degas: The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, London, August 1995, p. 48 (another cast illustrated).
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 74, pp. 57-59 & 268 (other casts illustrated pp. 57 & 268).
S. Campbell, ed., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 98, pp. 474-476 (other casts illustrated).
S. Campbell, 'Degas: The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, London, August 1995, p. 48 (another cast illustrated).
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 74, pp. 57-59 & 268 (other casts illustrated pp. 57 & 268).
S. Campbell, ed., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 98, pp. 474-476 (other casts illustrated).
