Madonna and Child (tracing of an engraving)
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, French, 1834 - 1917
1853-1861
Graphite on tracing paper
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (11.4 × 8.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, through Friends of the Dartmouth Library
D.963.163.6
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Exhibition History
Reflections of the Original, Copies in the Dartmouth College Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 24-July 4, 1978.
Publication History
Arthur R. Blumenthal and Members of the Museum Studies Seminar, Art 84, Reflections of the Original: Copies in the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, pp.33-43.
Theodore Reff, "Addenda on Degas's Copies", Burlington Magazine, June 1965, Vol. I, No. 747, pp. 320-323.
Provenance
Collection of the artist's Atelier, Paris, about 1853-1861; collection of A. Martinez (a direct descendent of Degas), Paris, September 3, 1960; sold to Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York, date unknown; given to present collection, 1963.
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