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Property from a Prestigious Private French Collection

Edgar Degas

Femme s'essuyant

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 EUR

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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