Study for "Dante and Virgil"

c. 1856–57

Medium	Pencil with white chalk on grayish paper
Dimensions	Overall: 12 1/8 x 8 7/8 in. (30.8 x 22.5 cm)
Object Number	1955.1403
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Study for "Dante and Virgil", c. 1856–57, Pencil with white chalk on grayish paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1403

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Ten: Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Fernandez, Rafael, and Alexandra R. Murphy. Degas in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987. Reff, Theodore. "New Light on Degas's Copies." The Burlington Magazine 106, no. 735 (June 1964): 248–59. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Cowling, Elizabeth, and Richard Kendall. Picasso Looks at Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Barcelona: Museu Picasso, 2010.

Provenance

Atelier Degas (sale stamp, L. 658, at bottom left; atelier stamp, L. 657, on reverse, showing through paper at front center; Sale IV, Paris, Georges Petit, July 24, 1919, no. 109f {illustrated});* Robert Sterling Clark.