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Prints and Drawings
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Explore image in Artist: Edgar Degas, French, 1834–1917
Study of an Arm
ca. 1895–1900
Brown pastel (counterproof) heightened with pink-white pastel on brownish tracing paper
sheet: 37.6 × 19.4 cm (14 13/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
Bequest of Enoch Vine Stoddard, B.A. 1905
1957.56.34
Geography:
Made in France
Status:
Culture:
French
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors
Provenance:
Degas sale (L. 657); Durand-Ruel, Paris; Enoch Vine Stoddard, Waterford, CT
Bibliography:
Jennifer Gross, ed., Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2003), 10, 51–53, no. 14, pl. 14.
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