Verso with red oval stamp "ATELIER ED. DEGAS"

Catalogue Raisonné

Confirmation from Comité Degas (Brame & Lorenceau), Paris, dated February 28, 2018, the work will be included in the supplement volume

Michel Schulmann, Edgar Degas, The digital critical catalog, Ref. MS-2567, ill.

Provenance

The artist's estate, with the estate stamp verso, but not detectable in the estate auctions

Alfred Stroelin, Lausanne / Paris

Auction Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 22nd, 1994, cat.no.19

Jan Krugier Gallery, Geneva

Gallery Ditesheim & Maffei, Neuchâtel

Private collection Switzerland, acquired in 1996

Literature

Richard Kendall, Degas Landscapes, New Haven und London, Yale University Press, 1993, ill. no. 122 auf p. 140

Condition

On thin, gray wove paper, fresh colors, not varnished. With small damages in the lower edge and with traces of an old museum mounting on the reverse

Comments

Richard Kendall points out that the pastel was first published in his book "Degas Landscapes". He writes: "Landscape at Louveciennes" is a previously unpublished and entirely unexpected image that has few precedents in Degas' career. Starkly suburban in subject, it appears to depict newly constructed houses with crisp, geometric garden walls, built at the margin where town and country intersect. As in the rest of this family of images, Degas has established a high horizon and exploited the broad, pattern-making qualities of the subject "

Rückseitig mit dem Stempel in Rot im Oval "ATELIER ED. DEGAS"

Werkverzeichnis

Bestätigung des Comité Degas (Brame & Lorenceau), Paris, datiert vom 28. Februar 2018, dass das Werk in den Supplementsband aufgenommen wird, liegt vor

Michel Schulmann, Edgar Degas, The digital critical catalogue, Ref. MS-2567, reprod.

Provenienz

Nachlass des Künstlers, rückseitig mit dem Atelierstempel, doch in den Nachlassauktionen nicht nachweisbar

Alfred Stroelin, Lausanne/Paris

Auktion Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 22.6.1994, Kat. Nr. 19

Galerie Jan Krugier, Genf

Galerie Ditesheim & Maffei, Neuchâtel

Privatsammlung Schweiz, erworben 1996

Literatur

Richard Kendall, Degas Landscapes, New Haven und London, Yale University Press, 1993, reprod. Nr. 122 auf pag. 140

Zustand

Auf dünnem, grauem Velin, farbfrisch, nicht gefirnisst. Unten im äussersten Rand mit kleinen Beschädigungen und rückseitig mit Spuren einer alten Museumsmontage

Erläuterungen

Richard Kendall weist darauf hin, dass das Pastell erstmals in seinem Buch "Degas Landscapes" publiziert ist. Er schreibt: "Landscape at Louveciennes" is a previously unpublished and entirely unexpected image that has few precedents in Degas' career. Starkly suburban in subject, it appears to depict newly constructed houses with crisp, geometric garden walls, built at the margin where town and country intersect. As in the rest of this family of images, Degas has established a high horizon and exploited the broad, pattern-making qualities of the subject"