Edgar Degas

Émile Peyonat, Saône et Loire

Claude Glassey, Geneva

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1964)

Sotheby’s, London, 27 June 2000, lot 3 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)

Sotheby’s, London, 24 June 2015, lot 14 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

X, “Exposition des artistes indépendants,” La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, 2 April 1881, p. 110

Henry Havard, “L’Exposition des artistes indépendants,” Le Siècle, 3 April 1881, p. 2

G.G., “L’Exposition des artistes indépendants,” La Justice, 4 April 1881, p. 3

Jules Claretie, “La Vie à Paris,” Le Temps, 5 April 1881, p. 3

Gustave Goetschy, “Exposition des artistes indépendants,” Le Voltaire, 5 April 1881, pp. 1-2

Auguste Dalligny, “Les Indépendants: Sixième Exposition,” Le Journal des arts, 8 April 1881, p. 1

Louis Enault, “Chronique,” Moniteur des arts, 15 April 1881, p. 1

Charles Ephrussi, “Exposition des artistes indépendants,” La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 16, 16 April 1881, pp. 126-127

Bertall, “Exposition: Des peintres intransigeants et nihilistes: 36, boulevard des Capucines,” Paris Journal, 21 April 1881, p. 1

Elie de Mont, “L’Exposition du boulevard des Capucines,” La Civilisation, 21 April 1881, p. 2

Paul de Charry, “Les Indépendants,” Le Pays, 22 April 1881, p. 3

Paul Mantz, “Exposition des oeuvres des artistes indépendants,” Le Temps, 23 April 1881, p. 3

Nina de Villars, “Variétés: Exposition des artistes indépendants,” Le Courrier du soir, 23 April 1881, p. 2

Henry Trianon, “Sixième Exposition de peinture par un groupe d’artistes: 35, boulevard des Capucines,” Le Constitutionnel, 24 April 1881, p. 2

Comtesse Louise, “Lettres familières sur l’art: Salon de 1881,” La France nouvelle, 1-2 May 1881, pp. 2-3

Jules Claretie, La Vie à Paris: 1881, Paris, 1881, pp. 150-151

La Fare, “Chez les Impressionnistes,” Le Gaulois, 23 February 1882, p. 1

J.-K. Huysmans, “L’Exposition des indépendants en 1881,” L’Art moderne, Paris, 1883

Paul Gsell, “Edgar Degas, Statuaire,” La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe, no. 10, December 1918, p. 375, the wax illustrated

Paul-André Lemoisne, “Les Statuettes de Degas,” Art et Décoration, September-October 1919, p. 112, the wax illustrated

Paul Jamot, Degas, Paris, 1924, p. 149, pl. 52, the wax illustrated

Georges Grappe, Degas, Paris, 1936, p. 58, the wax illustrated (titled Jeune danseuse de quatorze ans)

John Rewald, ed., Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XX, p. 21; pls. 60-61, 63-69, the wax and another cast illustrated

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1946, pp. 128-129, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., The Cleveland Museum of Art, Works by Edgar Degas, 1947, pl. LVIII, another cast illustrated

Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers, London, 1949, pls. 96 and 97, another cast illustrated

Daniel Catton Rich, Degas, New York, 1951, p. 23, another cast illustrated

Daniel Catton Rich, Degas (1834-1917), New York, 1953, pl. 30, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, Original Wax Sculptures, 1955, no. 20, n.p., the wax illustrated

John Rewald, L’Œuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1957, no. XX, pp. 17-19 and 146, pls. 24-30, another cast illustrated

Louisine W. Havemeyer, Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector, New York, 1961, pp. 254-255

Raymond Cogniat, Degas, New York, 1968, p. 29, another cast illustrated

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S73, p. 145, the wax illustrated; pl. LXIV, another cast illustrated in colour

John Rewald, The History of Impressionism, New York, 1973, p. 451, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Edgar Degas: The Reluctant Impressionist, 1974, fig. 5, n.p., another cast illustrated

Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 63, the wax illustrated in colour; pls. 26 and 28, the wax illustrated

Exh. Cat., London, The Lefevre Gallery, The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas, 1976, pp. 2 and 91, another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated in colour on the cover

Theodore Reff, Degas: The Artist's Mind, New York, 1976, p. 240, another cast illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Degas 1879, 1979, pp. 66-67, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, Degas and the Dance, 1979, p. 43, another cast illustrated

Ian Dunlop, Degas, London, 1979, p. 181, another cast illustrated

Maurice Guillaud, ed., Degas: Form and Space, Paris, 1984, pp. 181 and 183, another cast and the plaster illustrated in colour

Roy McMullen, Degas. His Life, Times, and Work, Boston, 1984, p. 333, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Degas. The Dancers, 1984-85, p. 64, the wax illustrated in colour; p. 134, another cast illustrated

Götz Adriani, Degas, Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings, New York, 1985, p. 367, the wax illustrated

Daniel Catton Rich, Degas, New York, 1985, p. 23, another cast illustrated

Frances Weitzenhoffer, The Havemeyers—Impressionism Comes to America, New York, 1986, fig. 166, another cast illustrated in colour

Denys Sutton, Edgar Degas, Life and Work, New York, 1986, p. 186, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and San Francisco, The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, The New Paintings, Impressionism 1874-1886, 1986, p. 336, the wax illustrated in colour; p. 361, another cast illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi and Verona, Palazzo Forti, Degas Scultore, 1986, pp. 8, 21, 59, 98-99, 210, the wax and another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, The Private Degas, 1987, p. 83, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Degas in the Clark Collection, 1987, p. 64, another cast illustrated in colour

Richard Thomson, Degas. The Nudes, London, 1988, no. 113, p. 123, the wax illustrated

Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Degas, London, 1988, pp. 206-207, the wax and another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Paris, Grand Palais and Ottawa, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Degas, 1988-89, pp. 344 and 345, the wax illustrated; p. 351, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Degas Images of Women, 1989, p. 10, the wax illustrated

Gary Tinterow and Anne Norton, “Degas aux expositions impressionnistes,” in Degas inédit—Actes du Colloque Degas, Paris, 1989, p. 341, the wax illustrated

John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture. Catalogue Raisonné, New Edition, San Francisco, 1990, no. XX, pp. 35 and 79, the plaster illustrated; p. 78, the wax and another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated on the dust jacket

Henri Loyrette, Degas, Paris, 1991, pp. 387, 391-394, 402, 612-614 and 672

Anne Pingeot and Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 73, pp. 33-35, 188-189 and on the dust-jacket, another cast illustrated

Henri Loyrette, Degas: Passion and Intellect, London, 1993, pp. 1-6, another cast illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Kusthaus Zürich and Tubingen, Kunsthalle, Degas, Portraits, 1994-95, p. 288, another cast illustrated in colour; p. 355, another cast illustrated

Sara Campbell, “Degas, The Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné,” Apollo, London, August 1995, pp. 1, 15, 46, 61, 64 and on the cover, the wax and another cast illustrated; p. 47, the present cast listed

Ruth Berson, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, vol. I, San Francisco, 1996, pp. 326-374; vol. II, p. 190, the wax illustrated

Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, New York, 1996, no. 14, p. 44, the wax illustrated

Exh. Cat., London, The National Gallery and The Art Institute of Chicago, Degas Beyond Impressionism, 1996-97, p. 32, the wax illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, 1997-98, p. 77, the wax illustrated

Martine Kahane, Delphine Pinasa, Wilfride Piollet and Sara Campbell, “Enquête sur la Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans de Degas,” La revue du Musée d'Orsay, no. 7, Paris, Autumn 1998, pp. 46, 63, 65, 68 and 70-71, another cast illustrated 

Exh. Cat., Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum; Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Degas and the Little Dancer, 1998-99, pp. ii, 40, 45, 101 and pl. 45, the plaster illustrated in colour; pp. Viii, 77 and 107, the wax illustrated in colour; p. 100 and pl. 44, another cast illustrated in colour; the plaster illustrated in colour on the dust jacket 

Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 73, pp. 2, 20-21, 48, 51, 100 and 264-267, another cast illustrated; pp. 88, 90 and 92-93, the plaster illustrated; another cast illustrated in colour on the dust jacket; p. 267, the present cast listed

Exh. Cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Degas and the Dance, 2002-03, p. 123, another cast illustrated in colour 

Exh. Cat., Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Degas et gli italiani a Parigi, 2003, p. 43, another cast illustrated in colour 

Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Degas at Harvard, 2005, p. 45, another cast illustrated in colour 

Werner Hofmann, Degas. A Dialogue of Difference, London, 2007, no. 143, p. 186, another cast illustrated in colour 

Exh. Cat., Portland Art Museum, The Dancer: Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec, 2008, pp. 21, 46 and 68, another cast illustrated in colour 

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Fundación Mapfre, Degas: el proceso de la creación, 2008-09, pp. 12, 240-242 and 244, another cast illustrated 

Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 47, p. 279, another cast illustrated in colour; p. 280, the wax illustrated in colour; p. 281, the plaster illustrated in colour; p. 556, the present cast listed 

Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, Princeton, 2010, pp. 1, 117, 120, 125-126, 139 and 142, the wax and plaster illustrated

Exh. Cat., London, Royal Academy of Arts, Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement, 2011, pp. 70 and 85, the wax illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Edgar Degas, The Late Work, 2012-13, pp. 15 and 23, the wax illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Degas’ Method, 2013, pp. 12, 37, 55 and 294, another cast illustrated in colour

Daphne Barbour and Suzanne Quillen Lomax, eds., Facture, Conservation, Science, Art History, Volume 3, Degas, New Haven and London, 2017, pp. 52, 79 and 159, the wax illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum and Denver Art Museum, Degas: A Passion for Perfection, 2017-18, p. 160, another cast illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée d’Orsay and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Degas at the Opéra, 2019-20, pp. 255, 258 and 260; p. 261, the wax illustrated in colour