Study of an Arm

c. 1858–60

Medium	black pencil on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 12 3/16 x 6 9/16 in. (30.9 x 16.7 cm)
Object Number	1955.1389
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Study of an Arm, c. 1858–60, black pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1389

Select Bibliography

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. 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. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass.. Degas, Daughter of Jephtha. Dec. 12, 1966-Jan. 1, 1967. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Boston (MA): Museum of Fine Arts. Edgar Degas, The Reluctant Impressionist. June 20-Sept. 1, 1974. Cat. by Barbara S. Shapiro. Fernandez, Rafael, and Alexandra R. Murphy. Degas in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987. Jere Abbott.. . Bulletin of the Smith College Museum of Art, 15.. (June 1934).. Eleanor Mitchell.. "La fille de Jephté par Degas.". Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6, période, 18.. (1937).. Boggs, Jean Sutherland. "Degas Notebooks at the Bibliothèque Nationale II: Group B (18581861)." The Burlington Magazine 100, no. 663 (June 1958): 196, 199–203, 205.

Provenance

Atelier Degas (sale stamp, L. 658, at bottom left; Sale IV, Paris, Georges Petit, July 2–4, 1919, no. 109e {illustrated});* Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.