At the Louvre: The Etruscan Sarcophagus

c. 1879

Medium	graphite and gray wash on blued white wove paper
Dimensions	4 1/4 x 6 7/16 in. (10.8 x 16.3 cm); frame: 17 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (44.5 x 59.7 cm)
Object Number	1971.36
Acquisition	Acquired by the Clark, 1971
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, At the Louvre: The Etruscan Sarcophagus, c. 1879, graphite and gray wash on blued white wove paper. Clark Art Institute, Acquired by the Clark, 1971.36

Select Bibliography

Paris: Gazette des Beaux-Arts.. Degas dans les collections françaises.. 1955.. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland. Degas. Aug. 13-Sept. 30, 1979. Edinburgh International Festival. Cat. by Ronald Pickvance. Boston (MA): Museum of Fine Arts.. Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker. Nov. 13, 1984-Jan. 13, 1985; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 16-April 14, 1985; Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, May 15-July 14, 1985. Cat. by Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara Stern Shapiro. London: Art Council of Great Britain.. The Private Degas. Whitworth Gallery, University of Manchester, Jan. 17-Feb. 28, 1987; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, March 14-May 3, 1987. Cat. by Richard Thomson. Fernandez, Rafael, and Alexandra R. Murphy. Degas in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Copier Créer: De Turner à Picasso: 300 oeuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre.. April 29-July 26, 1993. Paris: Galerie Georges Petit.. Vente Edgar Degas.. April 7-9, 1919.. Paris: Galerie Georges Petit.. Catalogue des Tableaux, Pastels, et Dessins par Edgar Degas.. July 2-4, 1919.. Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustré (XIXe et XXe siècles). 32 volumes. Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1906-30. An Exhibition of Etchings by Edgar Degas. May 4 - June 12, 1964. Chicago: The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, 1964. Theodore Reff.. Degas, The Artist's Mind.. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harper & Row.. 1976.. Giese, Lucretia H. "A Visit to the Museum." Boston Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin 76 (1978): 4353. Theodore Reff.. Degas: The Artist's Mind.. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.. 1987.. Callen, Anthea. "Anatomy and Physiognomy: Degas' Little Dancer of Fourteen Years." In Degas Images of Women. Exh.cat. Liverpool: Tate Gallery, 1989. Kendall, Richard. Degas and the Little Dancer. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven: Yale University Press; Omaha: Joslyn Museum of Art, 1998.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, fourth studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2–4 July 1919 [L. 657 and L. 658], no. 250a, ill. as Une vitrine au Musée du Louvre); private collection, France; [Wildenstein, New York, sold to Ittman, 1 July 1968]; William M. Ittman Jr., Bennington, Vt. (1968–1971); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute , 1971.