- Museum number
- 1949,0411.2425
- Title
- Object: Le sommeil (Sleep)
- Description
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Female nude lying on bed, seen foreshortened, wearing night-cap. c.1883-85
Monotype
- Production date
- 1883-1885
- Dimensions
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Height: 275 millimetres
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Width: 378 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This is the first pull of the monotype; the second cognate impression is listed as Janis 136 (current whereabouts unknown). This was made during a period when Degas experimented with working from dark to light in his monotypes, for comparable subjects, see Carol Armstrong, 'Degas in the Dark', in Jodi Hauptman, 'Degas: A Strange New Beauty', exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016, pp.36-45; see especially pls. 107-108 for monotypes made c.1880-1885 of women undressing, lying on a bed and reading (pls.100-108). For the impact of Degas's monotypes on the prints of Edvard Munch, see Giulia Bartrum, (ed), 'Edvard Munch: love and angst', London, 2019, pp.78-80, no. 31 and p.203.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1985 May-July, London, Hayward Gallery, 'Degas Monotypes', no.20
1988 Feb-May, Paris, Galerie Nationales du Grand Palais, 'Degas', no.245
1988 June-Aug, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 'Degas', no.245
1988/9 Sep-Jan, New York, Met. Museum of Art, 'Degas', no.245
1994 Oct-Dec, Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard State Mus, 'Deg. Intime', no.59
1996 April-June, Houston, Mus of Fine Arts, Landmarks/Print Collecting
1996 July-Sep, LA, Huntington Library/AG, Landmarks/Print Collecting
1996, Oct-Dec, Baltimore, Mus of Arts, Landmarks/Print Collecting
1997 Jan-April, Minneapolis, Inst of Arts, Landmarks /Print Collecting
2003/4 Sep-Jan, Tarragona, Sala Tarragona, Masters/Print. from BM
2004 Feb-April, Palma, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Masters/Print. from BM
2004 April-July, Lleida, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Masters/Print. from BM
2008/9 Dec-March, Canberra, NG of Australia, Degas
2010 June-Sep, MA, Williamstown, Clark Art Inst, Picasso/ Degas
2010/11 Oct-Jan, Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso looks at Degas
2013 Jun-Sep, Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Degas's Method
2019 11 Apr - 21 Jul, London, BM, G35, Edvard Munch: love and angst
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,0411.2425