Woman in a Ruffled Cap

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman in a Ruffled Cap

Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-568c79847d76

Date
1859–60
Medium
etching on wove paper
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
535703

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Although Edgar Degas is known for his depictions of modern Parisian life, early in his career the artist focused on portraiture. This etching was created after time spent closely studying the prints of Northern master Rembrandt van Rijn at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Degas emulated the elder artist’s distinctive mark making to record the likeness of this woman, whose identity is unknown today. Like many of Degas’s prints, this work was never editioned and exists in only four impressions. Early scholars believed that this print might be a portrait of Edgar Degas’s mother. Today, instead, it has been tied to a drawing of the same year that depicts a similar but unidentified woman sewing.

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Credit line
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Provenance
1860–1917: Studio of the artist, by descent | November 22–23, 1918: (sale, Estampes par Edgar Degas, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, France) | 1917–1927: René de Gas [1845–1927], Paris, by descent | 1927–?: Odette de Gas [1887–1932] and Roland Nepveu [1885–1962], Paris, by descent | Arlette Nepveu-Degas, Paris, by descent | ?–2006: Private Collection - ?-2006 | May 24, 2006: (sale, Christie’s, Paris, May 24, 2006, no. 19, sold to C.G. Boerner) – 2006 | 2006: (C.G. Boerner, New York, NY, sold to a private collection) – 2006 | 2006–22: Private collection – 2006–22 | 2022: (Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, NY), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | December 5, 2022-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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