Edgar Degas

Estate of the artist

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Degas, 1re Vente, 6 May 1918, lot 170 (consigned by the above)

Henri Fèvre, Monte Carlo (acquired at the above sale)

Ruth Henschel, New York (acquired by 1946)

Lilli Lippmann-Wulf, New York (acquired by 1947)

Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America (acquired by bequest from the estate of the above)

Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 7-8 November 1952, lot 270 (consigned by the above)

Charles Sessler Inc., Philadelphia (acquired at the above sale)

Irving Vogel, Philadelphia (acquired by 1968)

Benjamin D. Gilbert, Stamford (acquired by 1970)

Hammer Galleries, New York (acquired by 1968)

Acquired from the above in 1970 by the present owner

Paris, Galerie André Weil, Degas: Peintre du movement, 1939, no. 37 (titled La Blanchisseuse)

New York, Hammer Galleries, 40th Anniversary Loan Exhibition, 1928-1968, 1968, p. 22, illustrated in color

The Armand Hammer Collection Exhibitions:

1969: Memphis

1970: Washington, D.C.; Kansas City; New Orleans; Columbus; Little Rock

1971: San Francisco

London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1972, no. 83, illustrated in color

Paris, Musée du Louvre, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1977, no. 83 L-9 

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Armand Hammer Collection: Four Centuries of Masterpieces, 1979-80, no. 96, n.p., illustrated in color

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Van Gogh to Munch, 2011

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation and the Collection of Michael Armand Hammer, 2013-16

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2022 (on loan)

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1947, no. 961, pp. 558-59, illustrated

Franco Russoli, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 682, p. 117, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre culturel du Marais, Degas: Form and Space, 1984, p. 118, illustrated

The Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, 1985, p. 107, illustrated in color; p. 236