Object details
Accession number
P1e4
Provenance
In the collection of the dealer Michel Manzi (1849–1915), Paris.
The dealers Eugene Glaenzer & Co, Paris and New York by 1904.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Eugene Glaenzer & Co, New York on 18 March 1904 for $30,000 through Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian.
Marks
Signed and dated (upper left): Degas 1867
Bibliography
Minestère de la Maison de L'Empereur et des Beaux-Arts. Salon de 1869. Exh. cat. (Paris: Palais des Champs-Elyse?es, 1869), p. 90, no. 661. (as "Portrait of Mme G...")
John La Farge and August F. Jaccaci (eds.). Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections. vol. 1. (New York, 1909, reprint 1979), pp. 160-161, 247-254. (as "Portrait of a Woman")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 124. (as "Madame Gaujelin")
Stuart Preston. "Madame Gaujelin" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 52. (as "Madame Gaujelin")
Jean Sutherland Boggs. Portraits by Degas (Berkeley, 1962), pp. 30-32.
Richard T. Dickinson. "Degas' Madame Gaujelin." Fenway Court (Dec. 1967), pp. 57-67, ill. 58.
George L. Stout. Treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1969), pp. 48-49.
Rollin van N. Hadley et al. "Berenson and Mrs. Gardner: The Museum Years." Fenway Court (1974), p. 8.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 72-76.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 331-34, 357, 362, 370, 439-41, 443, 454, 455, 461.
Ann Dumas. Degas's Mlle. Fiocre in Context. (Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1988), p. 41.
Hilliard Goldfarb and Susan Sinclair. Isabella Stewart Gardner: Woman and the Myth. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1994), pp. 28-29.
Jill DeVonyar and Richard Kendall. Degas and the Dance. Exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Art and Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002), pp. 47-50, pl. 48.
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), pp. 194-95.
Jane Munro. Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Exh. cat. (Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), p. 60, fig. 46.
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