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EdgarDegas
PortraitdeMademoiselleFournaise,debout,s'appuyantàunetable
(PortraitofMademoiselleFournaise,standing,herhandrestingontable),c.1860(?)
Pencildrawingonpaper,306x196mm
onrecto,upperright,pencillines;lowerleft,redstamp:“Degas”[Lugt658];pencillines[?]
onverso,upperleft,inscribedinblue:“Pb[?]1766”;inscribedinpencil:“3”;upperright,inscribedin
pencil:“A16”[incircle];lowercentre,inscribedinpencil:“AbgebildetVenteDegas.”;brownhinging
tapeatuppercorners
Provenance:
Estateoftheartist
Sale:VenteAtelierDegas,part4,GalerieGeorgesPetit,Paris,2–4July1919,lot73c
Acquiredattheabovesale:CharlesVignier,Paris
Sale:VenteCharlesVignier,HôtelDrouot,Paris,20May1931,lot77
Acquiredattheabovesale:Dr.GeorgesViau,Paris
Sale:VenteViau,HôtelDrouot,Paris,11December1942,lot43
(…)
(ProbablyacquiredbyHildebrandGurlittinFranceafter1942)
Bylatest1956:HildebrandGurlitt,Dusseldorf
BydescenttoCorneliusGurlitt,Munich/Salzburg
From6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt
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Exhibitions:
Degas:Portraitiste,Sculpteur.Exh.cat.,Muséedel'Orangerie,Paris,July–October1931.[no.97,
aspropertyofGeorgesViau]
LeportraitdessineauXIXèmesiècle.Exh.cat.,GalerieMarcelGuiot,Paris,8–22June1937.[no.
41,ill.,aspropertyofGeorgesViau]
Bibliographicalreferences(selected):
EdgarDegas,4èmevente.Auct.cat.,AtelierDegas,Paris,2–4July1919.[lot73c,ill.]
VenteCharlesVignier.Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,Paris,20May1931.[lot77]
Lugt,Frits.LesMarquesdeCollectionsdeDessins&d’Estampes.1sted.,Amsterdam:Vereenigde
Drukkerijen,1921;supplement,TheHague:MartinusNijhoff,1956.[no.L.658]
www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/6393(30November2015)
Tableauxmodernes(…)œuvresimportantesdeDegas(…)composantlaCollectiondeM.Georges
Viau.Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,Paris,11December1942.[lot43]
Primarysources:
ArchivesdeParis:
Procès-verbaldevente,11December1942,no.D149E317
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt–reference:
3January1948[vol.6,fol.218]
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt–possiblereference:
29December1947[vol.8,fol.306]
CorneliusGurlittPapers,Salzburg:
Photographs,no.7.1_F752[n.d.]
Photographs,Karton07_Degas_02_Zettel-a[n.d.]
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie,TheHague:
F3IDegas,file1c
SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV41/038
Furthersourcesconsulted:
Vollard,Ambroise.Degas.Berlin:Cassirer,1925.
EdgarDegas.Exh.cat.,GalerieThannhauser,Munich,1927.
Lemoisne,Paul-André.Degasetsonœuvre.4vols.1sted.,Paris,PaulBrameandC.M.deHauke,
1946–1949;repr.(withsupplement),NewYork:Garland,1984.
Lemoisne,Paul-André.Degasetsonœuvre.Paris:LibrairiePlon,1954.
Degas:ImagesofWoman.Exh.cat.,TateGallery,Liverpool,21September–31December1989.
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CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeude
Paume
Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”
Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”
GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs
Lootedart.com
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RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie
VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)
WittLibrary
Note:
ThisdrawingwassoldinJuly1919inthefourthofaseriesofDegas’studiosales.Itwasacquired
by the poet Charles Vignier (1863 Geneva–1934 Paris). It subsequently passed to Georges Viau
(1855–1940 Paris), a dentist and well-known collector and patron of the arts. Viau began
collecting at about the turn of the century and went on to assemble one of the largest private
collections of Impressionist and Pre-Impressionist art in Paris. Sales of Viau works took place in
1907,1909,1925and1930,andposthumouslyin1942,1943and1948.
ThisdrawingwassoldatthesaleofViau’sestatein1942.ThedateofitsacquisitionbyHildebrand
Gurlittisuncertain.
ThepersonalpapersfoundinCorneliusGurlitt’sSalzburghomeincludeacollectionofabout2,400
photographs of artworks. Photograph no. 7.1_F752 is a reproduction of this work; on verso, a
typewritten statement of authenticity by the art expert André Schoeller of Paris, 13, Rue de
Téhéran,dated12November1943.
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