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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1129
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
Arabesque over the Right Leg, Left Arm in Line
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1919-1921
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230224

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze, with brown patina
Dimensions
17 x 17 x 9.1 cm (6 11/16 x 6 11/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: incised on base of bronze: Degas
  • foundry mark: proper left rear of bronze base, stamped: CIRE / PERDUE /A. HÉBRARD
  • foundry mark: proper left rear of bronze base, incised: 3/B

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, 1935; bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1129
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), no. 12, p. 100; repr. in b/w as fig. 49, p. 101

Exhibition History

  • Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005

Verification Level

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