Edgar Degas

Woman on a Sofa



Edgar Degas - Woman on a Sofa



Edgar Degas
Woman on a Sofa
1875
486 x 425 mm
Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine, with touches of pastel, over graphite underdrawing, on pink paper
Signed and dated upper right: Degas 1875
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


Provenance


Michel Manzi, Paris (until d. 1915)
his widow, Charlotte Manzi, Paris (1915-16
sold on December 5, 1916 through Cassatt to Havemeyer)
Mrs. H. O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York (1916-d. 1929; cat., 1931, p. 185, ill. p. 187)

External links


Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 29.100.185

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