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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery

Price Realised GBP 100,800
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GBP 100,000 - GBP 150,000
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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery

Price Realised GBP 100,800
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Price Realised GBP 100,800
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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery
etching with aquatint and drypoint, 1879-80, on heavy grey wove paper, a very rare impression of Reed & Shapiro's eleventh state (of twenty)
Plate 304 x 126 mm.
Sheet 420 x 233 mm.
Provenance
The artist's estate, with the red Atelier stamp verso (twice) (Lugt 657); presumably his posthumous sale, Paris (experts Delteil, Bernheim-Jeune, Durand-Ruel, Vollard), 22 November 1918.
Paul Prouté (1887-1981), Paris.
Literature
Delteil 29; Adehmar & Cachin 54; Reed & Shapiro 52 xi/xx (this impression cited).
FURTHER DETAILS
The most famous of all Degas' prints, Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery is regarded as a high point of the mid-nineteenth century etching revival in France. Unlike the very similar Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery which was probably intended for publication, Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery exists only in proof impressions which show the artist's fascination with printmaking techniques.

Reed and Shapiro knew of only two impressions of the eleventh state, this example and Baltimore Museum of Art. Delteil cited 44 impressions across all twenty states, of which 28 are, according to Reed & Shapiro, in public collections.
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