Study for “Madame Julie Burtey”

c. 1867

Medium	black and dark-brown graphite on blued white wove paper
Dimensions	12 1/16 x 8 1/2 in. (30.6 x 21.6 cm)
Object Number	1955.1406
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Study for “Madame Julie Burtey”, c. 1867, black and dark-brown graphite on blued white wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1406

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. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Kunsthalle, Tübingen.. Edgar Degas: Pastels and Drawings. Jan. 14-March 25, 1984; Nationalgalerie, Berlin, April 4-May 5, 1984. Cat. by Götz Adriani.. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag.. Fernandez, Rafael, and Alexandra R. Murphy. Degas in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987. Kunsthaus Zürich. Degas Portraits. Dec. 2, 1994-March 5, 1995; Kunsthalle Tübingen, March 18-June 18, 1995. (Cat. by Felix Baumann et al.).. London: Merrell Holberton.. Pinkney L. Near.. French Paintings: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.. 1985.. 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. Lemoisne, Paul-André. Degas et son oeuvre. Les Artistes et leurs oeuvres, études et documents. Paris: P. Brame et C. M. de Hauke, 1946.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, third studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7–9 Apr. 1919 [L. 658], no. 304, ill., as Tête de femme, sold to Knoedler, Paris, as agent for Clark); Robert Sterling Clark (1919–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.