Head of a Bearded Old Man, after a Drawing in the Louvre by François Clouet

Artists

Dimensions

actual: 30.4 x 23.5 cm (11 15/16 x 9 1/4 in.)

Provenance

[Fourth sale of the estate of Edgar Degas at the Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4, 1919, lot 87d, sold]; [to Durand-Ruel, New York (1919-?), sold]; to Lillie P. Bliss, New York (?-1934), bequest; to Museum of Modern Art, New York (1934-1943), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Notes: 1. The drawing shared a frame with and was sold with four other drawings at the 1919 Degas estate sale (lots 87a-d). 2. Lillie P. Bliss passed away in 1931 and her bequest to the Museum of Modern Art was finalized 3 years late, according to the terms of her will (which called for an adequate endowment fund to be secured in that interval).