Edgar Degas 1834-1917)

Modiste garnissant un chapeau

细节

Edgar Degas 1834-1917)
Modiste garnissant un chapeau
with the artist's stamped signature (Lugt 659), (lower left)
pastel and charcoal on paper laid down on board
17¼ x 105/8in. (43.8 x 27cm.)
Executed circa 1898

来源

The artist's studio; third sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7-9 April 1919, lot 52 (illustrated p. 42).
Nunès et Fiquet, Paris.
R. Sauerbach; his sale, 11 March 1931, lot 4 (illustrated pl. III).
Hugo Perls, Paris.
Stern Collection (acquired from the above); his sale, Parke-Benet Galleries, Inc., New York, 30-31 March 1949, lot 166.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

出版

P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946, no. 1319 (illustrated, p. 769).

展览

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Twentieth Century Masters from the Bragaline Collection, November 1963, no. 16 (illustrated).
Southampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum, Art from Southampton Collections, August-September 1973, no. 37.

拍品专文

The model and her pose in this drawing are closely related to those in the pastel Chez la modiste (L. 1318) and recall a pastel of the same title from 1891-1895 (L. 110; for a related study see Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 14 November 1996, lot 130). Degas exhibited his first pictures of milliner's shops in 1882, and in these works he captured the clear differences between the store's bourgeois clients and the lower class shop girls. In the later Modiste series he concentrates on the hat makers themselves, showing them alone or working together in pairs. As he had done in his ongoing series of dancers, and in the powerful series of laundresses and women ironing, Degas favoured a behind-the-scenes look at women at work, showing his sympathy for their poorly-compensated and difficult working conditions.