Edgar Degas

lisabeth (Elise) de Rutté, Berne

Paul de Rutté, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)

Violette Couvreu (née de Rutté), Paris (acquired by descent from the above)

André de Würstemberger, Berne (acquired by descent from the above)

Galerie Koller, Zurich, 8-21 November 1972

Wildenstein & Co., New York and London (probably acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 1986 by the present owner

Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Degas: Portraitiste, Sculpteur, 1931, no. 61, p. 58 (titled Portrait de Madame de R.)

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Kyoto, City Art Museum and Fukuoka Cultural Centre, Exposition Degas, 1976-77, no. 12, n.p., illustrated in color

London, Wildenstein & Co., French Portraits XVII-XX Century, 1982

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Degas, 1988-89, no. 141, p. 247, illustrated in color (exhibited in Ottawa and New York only)

Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Degas, 1993, no. 5, n.p., illustrated in color

Kunsthaus Zürich and Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Degas, Porträts, 1994-95, no. 126, p. 24, illustrated in color

Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; Wuppertal, Von de Heydt-Museum; Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister and Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, El Greco bis Mondrian, 1996, n.n., p. 91, illustrated in color

Krems, Kunsthalle, Renoir und das Frauenbild des Impressionismus, 2005, p. 35, illustrated in color; p. 102

Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Degas: Klassik und Experiment, 2014-15, no. 33, p. 125, illustrated in color

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum and Denver Art Museum, Degas: A Passion for Perfection, 2017-18, no. 91, p. 144, illustrated in color; p. 248 (exhibited in Cambridge only)

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. II, Paris, 1946, no. 369, pp. 196-97, illustrated

Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962, pp. 47-48; 59 and 129; pl. 83, illustrated 

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 394, p. 105, illustrated

Eugénie de Keyser, Degas: réalite et métaphore, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1981, p. 53

Richard Verdi, “Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London Summer Exhibitions,” Burlington Magazine, vol. 124, no. 953, August 1982, p. 518

Henri Loyrette, Degas, Paris, 1991, pp. 359 and 741