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| Maker(s): | Degas, Edgar | | Culture: | French (1834-1827)
| | Title: | Femme à l'éventail (Lady with a Fan)
| | Date Made: | 1872
| | Type: | Drawing
| | Materials: | graphite and pastel on medium weight, slightly textured, cream-colored paper mounted on laid paper over wood stretcher
| | Place Made: | Louisiana: New Orleans
| | Measurements: | Mount: 14 1/8 in x 11 3/8 in; 35.9 cm x 28.9 cm; Sheet: 12 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 31.7 cm x 24.1 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | signature and date on lwoer right in pencil: nouvelle Orléans 72 / Degas, inscription on lower left in pencil: -95995 W.C.A. 1382, mark lower right stamped: [collector's mark] JR [conjoined], inscription on verso on stretcher upper center and back of work lower center in pencil: W.C.A. 1382 95995
| | Accession Number: | SC 2020.17.7
| | Credit Line: | The Carol O. Selle, class of 1954, Drawing Collection. Gift of Carol O. Selle
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description: Young woman seated with large fan
Tags: women; fashion; social classes Subjects: Fashion; Social classes; Women; Graphite Link to share this object record: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+2020.17.7 |
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