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Standing Nude

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

French, 1834–1917

Standing Nude

c. 1860–65

Medium graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions 11 9/16 x 8 11/16 in. (29.4 x 22 cm)
Object Number 1955.1847
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Standing Nude, c. 1860–65, graphite on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1847

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. 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. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. High Museum of Art.. Degas and America: The Early Collectors. Feb. 28-May 27, 2001. Cat. by Ann Dumas and David A. Brennan.. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 16-Sept. 9, 2001.. R. F. C.. "Le opere di Degas alla collezione Clark.". Emporium, 132: 787.. (July 1960).. William Anthony.. A New Approach to Figure Drawing.. New York: Crown Publishers.. 1965.. . "Le opere di Degas alla collezione Clark.". Emporium.. July 1960.:pp. 40-41.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing.. Prentice-Hall.. 1973.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing, 2nd ed.. Prentice Hall.. 1976.. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. Clint Brown and Cheryl McLean.. Drawing from Life.. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.. 1992.. Kendall, Richard. Degas: Beyond Impressionism.(Cat. of exh. National Gallery, London, May 22-Aug. 26, 1996; Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 28, 1996-Jan. 5, 1997).. London: National Gallery Publications, Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press.. 1996. 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. Cowling, Elizabeth, and Richard Kendall. Picasso Looks at Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Barcelona: Museu Picasso, 2010. Boggs, Jean Sutherland. "Degas Notebooks at the Bibliothèque Nationale I: Group A (18531858)." The Burlington Magazine 100, no. 662 (May 1958): 1639, 171.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, fourth studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2–4 July 1919 [L. 658], no. 109d, ill., as Etude de femme nue, sold to Knoedler, Paris, as agent for Clark); Robert Sterling Clark (1919–1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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