id:			393049
accession number:	2020.223
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.223
updated:		2024-07-24 11:12:27.444000

The Laundresses, 1879–80. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Etching and aquatint; image: 11.6 x 15.7 cm (4 9/16 x 6 3/16 in.); sheet: 21 x 23.8 cm (8 1/4 x 9 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2020.223

title:				The Laundresses
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creation date:			1879–80
creation date earliest:		1879
creation date latest:		1880
current location:		
creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	etching and aquatint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: Delteil 37; Reed and Shapiro 48

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CREATORS

* Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)  - artist
French painter, sculptor, 1834-1917
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measurements: Image: 11.6 x 15.7 cm (4 9/16 x 6 3/16 in.); Sheet: 21 x 23.8 cm (8 1/4 x 9 3/8 in.)
state of the work:	IV/IV
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support materials:

	description:	beige wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	stamped, on verso, in red ink: ATELIER / ED DEGAS [Lugt 657]; lower right, in plate: Schneider / 9 Berlin
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism
	opening date:   2023-10-08T04:00:00
	<i>Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2023-January 14, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Edgar Degas, 1834-1917</em>. David Carritt Limited, London (November 2 - December 9, 1983).', 'opening_date': '1983-11-02T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Degas: Images of Women</em>. Tate Liverpool (September 21, 1989 - December 31, 1989).', 'opening_date': '1989-09-21T00:00:00'}

* {'description': "<em>Degas &amp; Pissarro: Alchimie d'une rencontre</em>. Cabinet cantonal des estampes, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (June 16 - August 22, 1999); Musée du Québec (May 5 - June 27, 1999); Israel Museum, Jerusalem (September - October 1999).", 'opening_date': '1999-05-05T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Studio of the artist, Paris
	date: 1880-1918
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	citations: 	


	(his sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, November 22-23, 1918, no. 95)
	date: 1918
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	(sale, Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland, June 20, 1973, no. 161)
	date: 1973
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	(Artemis Group/David Carritt Limited, London)
	date: by 1983-?
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	Josefowitz Collection, Lausanne, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: after 1983-2020
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue des eaux-fortes, vernis-mous, aquatintes, lithographies et monotypes par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier</em>. Paris: Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 1918.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 95
	url:		

	Delteil, Loys. <em>Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré</em>. Vol. 9. Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1919
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 37
	url:		

	<em>Edgar Degas: 1834-1917</em>. Exh. Cat. London: David Carritt Ltd., 1983.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: no. 18
	url:		

	Reed, Sue Welsh, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. <em>Edgar Degas: The Painter As Printmaker</em>. Exh. Cat. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1984.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 48
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	Richard Kendall, Anthea Callen, and Dillian Gordon. <em>Degas: Images of Women</em>. Exh. Cat. Liverpool: Tate, 1989.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 40, no. 15
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	Minder, Nicole, Eric Gillis, and Richard R. Brettell. <em>Degas &amp; Pissarro: alchimie d'une rencontre</em>. Exh. Cat. Vevey: Musée Jenisch, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 51
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	Salsbury, Britany. <em>Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism</em> Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 115, no. 12
	url:		

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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.223/2020.223_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.223/2020.223_full.tif