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Prints and Drawings
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.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.