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EDGAR DEGAS

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EDGAR DEGAS

Tête d'un enfant chantant (recto); Une esquisse du Dante (verso)

thinned oil on paper
11 3/8 x 8 in. (28.9 x 20.3 cm.)

Painted 1856-1860
Provenance
Anon. sale, J. Fèvre, Paris, 1934, no. 124
Marcel Guérin, Paris
Galerie Nathan, Zürich
Literature
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 8, no. 24 (illustrated, p. 9)
Exhibited
Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Degas dans les collections françaises, -------, 1955, no. 10
Amsterdam, E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Maîtres français du XIXe et XXe siecle, Nov.-Dec., 1966, no. 5 (illustrated)

Lot Essay

This work was painted after a bas-relief of Lucca della Robbia in Florence.