Edgar Degas

Jean Cau, Paris (sold: Paris, Vente de la propriété de Jean Cau, December 16, 1993, no. 62)
Sam Porter Fine Arts, Great Neck, New York
Acquired from the above, June 1998

Paris, Galerie A. A. Hebrard, Exposition des Sculptures de Degas, 1921, no. 3
Paris, Louvre Museum, Orangerie des Tuileries, Degas, Oeuvres du Musée du Louvre, Peintures, Pastels, Dessins, Sculpture, 1969, no. 245
Martigny, Pierre Gianadda Foundation, Degas, 1993, no. 225, illustrated, p. 230

John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, New York, 1944, p. 24, no. XLI, illustration of another cast         
John Rewald, L'Oeuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1957, no. XLI, p. 152, fig. 17, illustration of another cast p. 154               
Franco Russoli, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S3, illustration of another cast, p. 140
John Rewald, Degas' Complete sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XLI, illustration of another cast, p. 120                  
Anne Pingeot and Frank Horvat, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, p. 154, illustration of another cast, no. 3                                                         
Sara Campbell, Degas' Bronzes, Apollo, London, August 1995, no. 2, illustration of another cast p. 12     
Joseph Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 2, illustration of another cast, pp. 124-125

 

The number 2 refers to the foundry's list of Degas' wax models, which were each cast in bronze in an edition of twenty-two between 1919 and 1921.  The first twenty in each edition were numbered from A to T and destined for sale; the remaining two casts were reserved for the Degas heirs and for the founder, Hébrard and marked HER.D and HER respectively.