stamped with signature bottom right Degas (Lugt 658)--
pastel on paper
16 1/8 x 11¾ in. (41 x 30 cm.)
Drawn 1881-1882
來源
The artist's studio; fourth sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, lot 14 (illustrated, p. 19)
Etienne May, Paris
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Oct. 23, 1980, lot 308A
出版
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, no. 656bis (illustrated, p. 371)
拍品專文
This work is a study for a larger pastel portrait of Mme May titled Portrait de femme près d'un berceau (P.A. Lemoisne, op.cit., no. 656). There is also a related study of the head only (ibid., no. 657).