
Property from a Prestigious Private French Collection
Femme s'essuyant
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prestigious Private French Collection
Edgar Degas
1834-1917
Femme s'essuyant
signed Degas (lower right)
pastel and charcoal on paper
31,6 x 49,9 cm; 12½ x 19⅝ in.
Executed circa 1884.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 31 January 1944, lot 5
Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Charles Gillet, France
Thence by descent to the present owner
The Wildenstein Plattner Institute Inc; Ambroise Vollard Records [X0LB01QQ], Photo Box #1, c. 1860–1908; https://digitalprojects.wpi.art/archive/collections/detail?id=295238-femme-sessuyant (accessed March 16, 2026)
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946, no. 793, p. 451, illustrated et p. 450
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