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image of Head, Study for a Portrait of Mme Salle
Edgar Degas (sculptor)
French, 1834 - 1917
Head, Study for a Portrait of Mme Salle, c. 1892
indefinable matter, containing plaster
overall without base: 24.3 x 14.7 x 20 cm (9 9/16 x 5 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.) base: 17.2 x 19.2 x 19.2 cm (6 3/4 x 7 9/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
1999.79.41
Not on View

Exhibition History

1955
Edgar Degas 1834-1917: Original Wax Sculptures, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York, 1955, no. 29.
1956
Sculpture by Degas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1956.

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