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The Laundresses
c. 1879-1880
Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
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4th and final state

A black and white print of two standing woman ironing on a board in a dark interior, while another woman sits in the foreground
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Details

  • Artist Name: Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
  • Title: The Laundresses
  • Date: c. 1879-1880
  • Medium: Etching and aquatint on wove paper
  • Dimensions: plate: 4-5/8 x 6-1/4 in. (11.7 x 15.9 cm); sheet: 8 x 9-5/16 in. (20.3 x 23.7 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
  • Accession Number: M.1979.01.G
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation

Object Information

Degas (sale, Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 21 November 1918, lot 95); Otto Gerstenberg (1848-1935), Berlin (his collection mark on the reverse), by descent to his daughter; Margarethe Scharf, Berlin, by descent to; Dieter Scharf, Hamburg, by 1961 (sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 9 November 1978, lot 78), to; Norton Simon Art Foundation.

Eaux-fortes, vernis-mous, aqua-tintes, lithographies et monotypes par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier

  • Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 1918-11-21 to

[on loan]

  • Art Institute of Chicago, 1978-11-17 to 1979-07-16
  • Delteil, Loys, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré. Volume IX: Degas,
  • Adhemar, Jean; and François Cachin, Degas: the Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes,
  • Campbell, Sara et al., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, 2009, Fig. 18 p. 165
  • Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1549 p. 419

Additional Artwork by Artist

Arabesque over the right leg, left arm in front Edgar Degas Modeled c. 1882-95; cast 1919-21
Arabesque over the right leg, left arm in line Edgar Degas Modeled 1885-90; cast 1919-21
Arabesque over the right leg, right hand near the ground, left arm outstretched (First arabesque penchée) Edgar Degas Modeled 1885-90; cast 1919-21
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