c. 1867
36.1 x 27.2 cm (14 3/16 x 10 11/16 in.) framed: 54 x 41.3 x 1.6 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 5/8 in.)
Hilarie-Germain-Edgar Degas atelier [Vente II, Galerie Georges Petite, December 11-13, 1918, no. 347 as “Femme assise dans un fateueil. Étude pour le portrait de Mme Julie Burtin"], sold to Reginald Davis, Paris. Mme Demotte, Paris, 1924, sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, 1928, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.
Brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and charcoal on off-white wove paper, mounted to light tan laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite, touches of red and white chalk, tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black chalk on tan wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on white paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchEssence on brown wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrush and pale and dark gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper. Verso: brush and brown and pale and dark gray wash over black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrench